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Acoustic analysis of lexical tone in Mandarin infant-directed speech A comparison between the acoustics and inflection of language of Mandarin-Chinese mothers when speaking to their 10-12 month-old infants and when speaking to adults, based on vocal recordings of 16 mothers |
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Adult outcomes as a function of an early childhood educational program: An Abecedarian Project follow-up A longitudinal study of the effect of an early educational intervention on economic, socioemotional, and educational outcomes at age 30, based on data collected from 101 of the original low-income participants in the Abecedarian Project experiment in North Carolina |
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Amount and environmental predictors of outdoor playtime at home and school: A cross-sectional analysis of a national sample of preschool-aged children attending Head Start An estimation of the amount of time children attending Head Start spend playing outdoors at both home and at school, and an examination of the relationship between outdoor play time and both the home and school environment, based on data from 2,529 children in Head Start in spring 2007 from the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) |
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An analysis of the effectiveness of early intervention programs for high-risk children A review of seventeen studies on the impact of early educational intervention on intellectual development in children from socioeconomically disadvantaged families |
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Asthma management practices and education needs of Head Start directors and staff A survey-based study of Head Start directors and staff assessing asthma care practices, beliefs, education activities, and sociodemographic characteristics |
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Boys, girls, and "two cultures" of child care A comparison of child care quality differences by gender, and an exploration of the contributions of gender composition of the child care setting, child behavior, and structural, global, and care giving quality to those overall differences, based on data from a subset of 66 toddlers, between the ages of 24 and 35 months, from the Temperament Over Time Study (TOTS) |
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Child care setting affects salivary cortisol and antibody secretion in young children A study of the relationship of illness frequency to both cortisol levels and antibody secretions, measured several times throughout each day and both at home and at child care, in a sample of 65 children from upstate New York |
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Cytomegalovirus transmission in child care homes An investigation of the rate that young children are exposed to cytomegalovirus in family child care homes as compared with the rate of exposure in child care centers |
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Day care attendance in the first year of life and illnesses of the upper and lower respiratory tract in children with a familial history of atopy A longitudinal study (September 1994/August 1996) examined the relationship between child care attendance and upper/lower respiratory tract infections during the child's first year |
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Day care increases the risk of respiratory morbidity in Chronic Lung Disease of Prematurity A study of the association between child care attendance and occurrence of respiratory illnesses in a sample of 111 children with Chronic Lung Disease of Prematurity (CLDP) |
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The difficulties of representing continuous extent in infancy: Using number is just easier A series of experiments measuring the abilities of 6 month-old infants to detect differences in the number and size of objects |
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Early Childhood Education Programs A review of the evidence on the effects of center-based early childhood education programs for preschool children. |
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Early childhood intervention programs: What do we know? An overview of the effectiveness of early intervention research conducted in the United States with implications for implementation |
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Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B): Methodology report for the nine-month data collection (2001-02): Vol. 1. Psychometric characteristics An overview of assessment methods and purposes for data collection on the developmental status of children in the study |
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Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B): Psychometric report for the 2-year data collection: Methodology report A description of the characteristics and field performance of instruments used in the two-year data collection of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), a nationally representative longitudinal study following children born in 2001 in the United States from birth until kindergarten |
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The Early Communication Indicator for infants and toddlers: Early Head Start growth norms from two states A study of the relationship between patterns of growth in communication and gender, Individualized Family Service Plans (IFSP) status, and home language environment and a second study of patterns of growth in gestures, vocalizations, and single- and multiple-word utterances and IFSP status, based on data from 27 Early Head Start programs and 5,882 children in the Midwest |
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Early educational intervention, early cumulative risk, and the early home environment as predictors of young adult outcomes within a high-risk sample An examination effects of the Abecedarian study and the CARE study, two randomized trials of early intervention, on young adult outcomes and an examination of the possible mediators of early cumulative risk and the early home environment in a sample of 139 young adults at age 21, from high-risk families enrolled as infants |
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Early language and the development of children's reading skills A longitudinal study of African American children's language and reading development to examine the relations among phonological awareness, language skills, print processing skills, and reading development in prekindergarten and in second grade |
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Early language and literacy skills in low-income African American and Hispanic children A discussion of the influences of multiple risk and protective factors in low income African American and Hispanic children in delaying early literacy skills |
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An economic analysis of kin-provided child care A paper examining maternal choices in residential proximity to kin and the likelihood of use of kin provided child care. |
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Encouraging consumption of water in school and child care settings: Access, challenges, and strategies for improvement A discussion of select policies related to drinking water access in schools and child care facilities, opportunities and practices to increase drinking water availability and consumption, and of funding opportunities for research, policy, and implementation efforts for improvements in access |
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The epidemiology of injuries in 4 child care centers A 2-year cohort study of 362 preschool-aged children comparing rates of injuries based on sex, age, and child care center, and examining the environmental and child factors related to injury severity |
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Fostering at-risk preschoolers' number sense A comparison of the pre- and post-test numeracy skills of children in classrooms using four different numeracy teaching techniques: structured discovery, semistructured discovery, direct instruction, and unstructured practice, based on data collected from 80 at risk children from two public preschools |
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Fostering mathematical thinking through playful learning An argument that a playful learning approach can lead to an optimal early learning environment that fosters mathematical thinking, and that playful learning experiences are intrinsically motivating and allow children to develop conceptual and procedural knowledge through meaningful engagement and sense-making processes, with references to both select research and early learning theory |
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