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Cognitive skill performance among young children living in poverty: Risk, change, and the promotive effects of Early Head Start

C Ayoub, E O'Connor… - Early Childhood …, 2009 - Elsevier
The purposes of the present study were to examine associations between risk factors and
the cognitive performance from one to three years of age of children living in poverty, and to
investigate the protective and/or promotive effects of EHS on children's cognitive skill ...

The early education of socioeconomically disadvantaged children

DH Arnold… - Annual Review of Psychology, 2003 - annualreviews.org
... Such factors may, for example, have repercussions on child cognitive functioning or parenting,
and in ... of African American students and 64% of Hispanic students show reading skill deficits,
whereas ... Thus poorer performance by minorities on a test is not necessarily evidence of ...

The Impact of Federal Antipoverty Policies.

C Brecher - 1973 - eric.ed.gov
... policies, "political strategy" and "service strategy," designed to deal with the problem of poverty
in American ... The central concern is the effect of the policies on the poor. ... Implications of the study
were a need for better performance measures, systematic experimental designs, and ...

The early identification of risk for grade retention among African American children at risk for school difficulty

C Blair - Applied Developmental Science, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
... major areas: (a) child readiness (eg, cognitive and social skills and abilities prior to ... and Bezruczko
(1993) reported that preschool attendance was associated with increased cognitive readiness
for ... The full-scale score com- bines both verbal and performance (visual-spatial co ...

Ordinary magic: Resilience processes in development.

AS Masten - American psychologist, 2001 - psycnet.apa.org
... These findings hint at the possibility of some speci- ficity for cognitive abilities and parenting as
moderators of risk for ... (1999), who found generally positive well-being among the resilient ... & ERA
Study Team, 1998): in the words of Rutter et al., "the degree of cognitive catch-up by ...

Economic, neurobiological, and behavioral perspectives on building America's future workforce

EI Knudsen, JJ Heckman… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
... As with skill development, an impoverished early environment results in a reduced capacity that
is ... continues to shape the neurobiology and behavioral manifestations of cognitive, emotional,
and ... of a wide range of adult capabilities, including those that affect performance in the ...

Contributions of protective and risk factors to literacy and socioemotional competency in former Head Start children attending kindergarten

GH Brody, Z Stoneman… - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1994 - Elsevier
... The scoring of the Emerg- ing Literacy section is based on children's abilities in the areas of ... of
Head Start and family finan- cial resources to elementary school performance increase
understanding of ... in- dicating what they can do to facilitate social and cognitive competencies ...

A picture of strength: Preschool competencies mediate the effects of early behavior problems on later academic and social adjustment for Head Start children

C McWayne… - Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2009 - Elsevier
... cognition and social problem-solving skills can lead to stronger academic performance and
positive ... such as those living in poverty or those diagnosed with ADHD—attention abilities have
mediational effects between early behavioral and cognitive difficulties and ...

Behavioral and Cognitive Readiness for School: Cross‐domain Associations for Children Attending Head Start

KL Bierman, MM Torres, CE Domitrovich… - Social …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
... Table 5. Child Competencies among Children Showing Different Profiles of Aggressive-Prosocial
Problems. ... emphasis on the promotion of emergent literacy and numeracy skills in Head Start
programs, utilizing performance assessments of child cognitive skill acquisition as ...

[BOOK] From neurons to neighborhoods: The science of early childhood development

JP Shonkoff… - 2000 - books.google.com
... 6. The broad range of individual differences among young children often makes it difficult to ... '-.
The development of children unfolds along individual pathways whose trajectories are
characterized by ... 8. Human development is shaped by the ongoing interplay among sources of ...

Early supplementary feeding and cognition: effects over two decades

E Pollitt, KS Gorman, PL Engle, R Martorell… - Monographs of the …, 1993 - JSTOR
... from Guatemala City of 35-150 km),3 educational level (30% literacy among the population ... In
addition, test performance was associated with age of entry into school and with ... studies of the
effects of the treatment on measures of preschool cognitive abilities (Engle, Yarbrough, & ...

Fighting Poverty: What Works and What Doesn

SH Danziger… - 1986 - eric.ed.gov
... Care for the Poor: The Past Twenty Years" (Paul Starr); (6) "The Effect of Direct ... Alan S. Blinder);
(9) "Household Composition and Poverty" (Mary Jo Bane); (10) "Poverty and Family ... Julius Wilson
and Kathryn M. Neckerman); (11) "Legal Rights and Welfare Change, 1960-1980 ...

[PDF] Head start children's entry into public school: A report on the National Head Start/Public School early childhood transition demonstration study

HS Bureau - 2000 - acf.hhs.gov
... 184 Figure 12.22: Patterns of performance by children in special education and retained in
grade . . . . . ... adequate by the funding agency -- were among those that implemented the weakest
Transition Demonstration Programs. ... skill areas -- reading and math- ...

early risk factors in the bud: Preventing substance abuse, delinquency, and violence in adolescence through interventions targeted at young children (0–8 years)

C Webster-Stratton… - Prevention science, 2001 - Springer
... Parents can learn to provide support for their children's cognitive, social, and emotional growth ...
For example, a young child's intellectual and social devel- opment can be stimulated by joint
reading ... as Time Out or loss of privileges, changes in the behavior of children with conduct ...

Strategies to avoid the loss of developmental potential in more than 200 million children in the developing world

…, PJ Gertler, L Kapiriri, R Martorell, ME Young - The Lancet, 2007 - Elsevier
... that includes poor health, lack of readiness for school, poor academic performance, inadequate
preparation ... and increasingly complex developmentally appropriate interactions (matched to the
child's emerging abilities) between caregivers ... [32] and [33] Both cognitive and social ...

Preventing conduct problems and improving school readiness: evaluation of the Incredible Years Teacher and Child Training Programs in high‐risk schools

C Webster‐Stratton, M Jamila Reid… - Journal of Child …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
... Both projects found long-term benefits in school performance and reductions in antisocial ... parent
and teacher reports, we were interested in directly assessing children's cognitive solutions to ...
non readers, and games to stimulate group discussion, cooperation, and skill-building. ...

Socioeconomic status, parental investments, and the cognitive and behavioral outcomes of low-income children from immigrant and native households

RS Mistry, JC Biesanz, N Chien, C Howes… - Early Childhood …, 2008 - Elsevier
... observed disparities in kindergarten assessments of math and reading performance among
Mexican immigrant ... mediated by such parental investments as the provision of cognitive and
linguistic ... posit that results indicating greater similarity than difference among immigrant and ...

An Ecological Perspective on the Transition to Kindergarten:: A Theoretical Framework to Guide Empirical Research

SE Rimm-Kaufman… - Journal of Applied Developmental …, 2000 - Elsevier
... example, children's poverty status (Alexander & Entwisle 1988 and Entwisle), cognitive readiness
and intelligence (Christian; Pianta and Reynolds), language abilities (Sturner and ... have direct,
measurable effects on children's behavior and academic performance in school. ...

Family and social risk, and parental investments during the early childhood years as predictors of low-income children's school readiness outcomes

RS Mistry, AD Benner, JC Biesanz, SL Clark… - Early Childhood …, 2010 - Elsevier
... a family's level of socioeconomic resources, the more likely it is that a child will be ... And finally,
we tested the extent to which the associations among family and social ... of the associations between
risk and EHS program status and children's cognitive performance through family ...

Preschool peer interactions and readiness to learn: Relationships between classroom peer play and learning behaviors and conduct.

K Coolahan, J Fantuzzo, J Mendez… - Journal of Educational …, 2000 - psycnet.apa.org
... behaviors (as assessed with the PIPPS) predicted first-grade academic performance, as mea ...
nature of certain social behaviors, with older children demonstrating greater skill in peer ... example,
a comprehensive examination of the relative contribution of cognitive, emotional, and ...

The promotive effects of family educational involvement for low-income children's literacy

E Dearing, K McCartney, HB Weiss… - Journal of School …, 2004 - Elsevier
... children whose mothers were more educated, even after controlling for early literacy abilities. ...
Instruction is likely directly linked with performance to the extent that parents are ... to promote
children's understanding of factual information and general cognitive development (Rogoff ...

Relating effortful control, executive function, and false belief understanding to emerging math and literacy ability in kindergarten

C Blair… - Child development, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
... designed to improve self-regulation skills as well as enhance early academic abilities may be
most ... that are similar along one dimension (ie, shape) but then to shift cognitive set and ... shifting,
β=.19, aspects of executive function made unique contributions to performance on the ...

Use your words: The role of language in the development of toddlers' self-regulation

C Vallotton… - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2011 - Elsevier
... increase their use of private speech and their subsequent performance on challenging ... provide
convergent evidence on the positive relationship between language abilities and self ... these
expressive language skills and self-regulation explained by general cognitive development ...

[PDF] Risk factors for academic and behavioral problems at the beginning of school

LC Huffman - 2000 - secure.ce-credit.com
... than nondepressed peers; however, depression does not consis- tently impair social-cognitive
abilities. ... Not surprisingly, cognitive disabilities requiring special education during pre- school
appear to ... impair- ment leads to poor academic and language performance in school ...

Pathways of long-term effects of an early intervention program on educational attainment: Findings from the Chicago longitudinal study

SR Ou - Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2005 - Elsevier
... This model suggests that cognitive abilities influence school success through socialization and ...
skills and scholastic development that were expected to affect future academic performance. ... The
five hypotheses, cognitive advantage, family support, motivational advantage, social ...

[BOOK] Principles and recommendations for early childhood assessments

K Nelson - 1998 - books.google.com
... grades, helping them become good self-assessors is a valuable skill that helps in ... performance
and when they would be evidence of below-expectation performance that requires ... Because direct
measures of children's language and cognitive functioning are difficult to aggregate ...

An examination of the contributions of interactive peer play to salient classroom competencies for urban head start children

J Fantuzzo, Y Sekino… - Psychology in the Schools, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
... performance, negative perceptions of school, avoidance of school, and school dropout (Buhs
& Ladd ... were observed to evidence greater cognitive, social, and movement/coordination abilities
at the ... peer play and later assessments of social-emotional and cognitive outcomes. ...

The social context of early schooling and children's school adjustment

KE Perry… - Educational Psychologist, 1998 - Taylor & Francis
... mal- leability of intelligence (Dweck & Leggett, 1988), mastery and performance goal orientations ...
Skill Acquisition Motivation Peer Relations Adult Relations Role Behaviors Self-Regulation of ...
Although correlational studies consistently point to links between cognitive and social ...

Disparities in academic achievement and health: The intersection of child education and health policy

K Fiscella… - Pediatrics, 2009 - Am Acad Pediatrics
... 72 Learning and skill formation build sequentially on previous learning. ... controlled trial of early
head start showed significant improvements in child cognitive and emotional ... costs of accelerating
student performance in high-need schools where student performance is lagging. ...

The construct of resilience: Implications for interventions and social policies

SS Luthar… - Development and psychopathology, 2000 - Cambridge Univ Press
... the clude aspects of school-based functioning, such as good academic performance and posi ...
are identified as serving protective functions, competent” or “emotionally health” young- sters. ...
investigators explicitly note, however, the popular press as well as among prac- titioners ...

Children, an important target group for reduction of socioeconomic inequalities in health

A Mielck, H Graham… - Reducing inequalities in …, 2002 - books.google.com
... low caregiver sensit- ivity to an infant, maternal depression, lack of quality preschool cognitive
and emotional ... outcomes identified in other early intervention initiatives (for example, higher
employment and skill levels in mothers, improved school performance, improved employ ...

[BOOK] Carolina Abecedarian Project

FA Campbell… - 2010 - books.google.com
... As children grew, the educational content became more conceptual and skill based ... were possible
have found that significant treatment/control differences in intellectual test performance were
not ... Cognitive test scores over time as a function of treatment and age: Adjusted means ...

Early Educational Intervention, Early Cumulative Risk, and the Early Home Environment as Predictors of Young Adult Outcomes Within a High‐Risk Sample

EP Pungello, K Kainz, M Burchinal… - Child …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
... Among the factors were the educational levels of parents, family income, family structure, evidence
of ... Further, earlier analyses examining the effects of treatment on cognitive outcomes through
age 8 ... Young adults were contacted by letter and invited to enroll in this phase of the ...

[PDF] Child development in developing countries 3: Strategies to avoid the loss of developmental potential in more than 200 million children in the developing world

…, PJ Gertler, L Kapiriri, R Martorell, ME Young - Lancet, 2007 - who.int
... increasingly complex developmentally appropriate interactions (matched to the child's emerging
abilities) between caregivers ... children that enhance child develop- ment.32,33 Both cognitive
and social ... School performance Economic performance Intergenerational transmission ...

[HTML] The impact of poverty on educational outcomes for children

HB Ferguson, S Bovaird… - Paediatrics & Child Health, 2007 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... and 21 years of age, and those who had received the intervention had higher cognitive test scores ...
Evidence from academic abilities, parental influences, and financial constraints. ... Willms D. Learning
divides: Ten policy questions about the performance and equity of schools and ...

Alterable predictors of child well-being in the Chicago longitudinal study

AJ Reynolds… - Children and Youth Services Review, 2004 - Elsevier
... 1, To document patterns of school performance and social competence throughout the school ...
and a common core of activities that include individualized instruction, small group activities ... rates
of grade retention (28%) and special education placement (17.4%) among CLS youth ...

Prevention of substance abuse with rural head start children and families: Results of project STAR.

RA Kaminski, EA Stormshak… - Psychology of …, 2002 - psycnet.apa.org
... In discussing important milestones in the cognitive development of young children ... in increased
prosocial child behavior and affectionate behavior among families as ... Current Head Start
performance standards specify objectives for mental health programs, including promoting ...

[BOOK] Success in early intervention: the Chicago child parent centers

AJ Reynolds - 2000 - books.google.com
... families are also likely to score lower on measures of health, cognitive development, school ... Among
women with preschool-age children, the 1996 rate of participation in the out-of ... Young children
in poverty: A statistical update (March 1998 ed.). New York: Columbia University ...

[BOOK] Early child development: investing in the future

ME Young - 1996 - siteresources.worldbank.org
... early child development can do much to prevent malnutrition, stunted cognitive development,
and ... in education programs pre- pare children for school, improving their performance and reducing ...
programs found evidence of positive effects on IQ, better- developed abilities at the ...

Influence of Mother, Father, and Child Risk on Parenting and Children's Cognitive and Social Behaviors

NJ Cabrera, J Fagan, V Wight… - Child development, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
... mainly maternal, and child outcomes, but few have modeled the associations among these
variables. ... adoptive, and foster moth- ers, stepmothers, and a very small percentage of ...
supportiveness, negative regard for child, intrusive- ness, detachment, and cognitive stimulation ...

Early childhood intervention: A continuing evolution

SJ Meisels… - Handbook of early childhood …, 2000 - books.google.com
... Among the forces that influenced this dramatic shift were the activities of such prominent ... con-
ducted extensive studies of the skills of normally de- veloping children, the abilities of youngsters ...
With the advent of Piaget's" cognitive revolution" in the 1950s and 1960s (Cairns, 1983 ...

Development and psychometric properties of the Early Development Instrument (EDI): A measure of children's school readiness.

M Janus… - Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science/ …, 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
... There appears to be a consensus among education- al and developmental experts that school
readiness should be ... items and refers to the child's ability to use language correctly and covers
cognitive aspects of ... on a 2- point scale: “yes” (10) if a child pos- sesses a skill and “no ...

[PDF] PK-3 education: Programs and practices that work in children's first decade

A Reynolds, K Magnuson… - … , Advancing PK-3, 2006 - leadershiplinc.illinoisstate.edu
... Developed Abilities Cognitive development Literacy skills Pre reading/numeracy skills ... A systematic
curriculum, including learning activities in the cognitive, language, and social emotional ... program
at age 8; and the extended intervention group surpassed the performance of the ...

Parent‐delivered compensatory education for children at risk of educational failure: Improving the academic and self‐regulatory skills of a Sure Start preschool sample

RM Ford, SJP McDougall… - British journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
... When the measures of cognitive ability were included last, they added significantly to the ... the final
regression models, teachers' ratings reflected in large measure children's performance on the ...
was also uniquely correlated with Nursery measures of pre-reading skill that focused ...

Preschool-to-third grade programs and practices: A review of research

AJ Reynolds, KA Magnuson… - Children and Youth Services Review, 2010 - Elsevier
... The five hypotheses are: 1) cognitive advantage hypothesis (as measured by developed cognitive
and scholastic abilities), 2) social ... of developmentally appropriate early childhood experiences
are strongly linked to later school performance and performance in society ...

Child care and early development

D Phillips, K McCartney… - … handbook of early …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
... find main effects of child care quality on children's reading and math skill trajectories; however ...
Caring for our children: National health and safety performance standards: Standards for
out-of-home ... Long-term effects of early childhood programs on cognitive and school outcomes. ...

[CITATION] Prevention during pregnancy, infancy and the preschool years

RE Tremblay… - Early prevention of adult antisocial …, 2003 - Cambridge Univ Pr

The Mozart effect* 1:: Not learning from history

SM Jones… - Journal of applied developmental psychology, 2002 - Elsevier
... the Raven's Progressive Matrices (Newman and Stough), backwards digit span performance
(Steele, Ball ... on a study by White and Held (1966), who found that psychomotor abilities, “fisted
swiping ... factors are known to place children at risk for poor cognitive and socioemotional ...

" Culture" and the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty: The Prevention Paradox

J Ludwig… - The Future of Children, 2006 - JSTOR
... dren's academic performance, such as achievement test results or the chance of dropping out
of ... whether boys attended religious services at least twice a month had a small and statis? ... the
fact that greater religious density appears to lead to better outcomes among adults does ...

Investing in children: What do we know? What should we do?

S Danziger… - Ann Arbor, 2000 - papers.ssrn.com
... what is known about the development of motivation, an important determinant of performance
in and ... Although basic and vocational skill levels among youth have not declined in absolute terms ...
of the life cycle, many adults can affect children's social and cognitive development. ...

Early identification and intervention: Head Start's response to mental health challenges

ML Lopez, LB Tarullo, SR Forness… - Early Education and …, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
... According to the Head Start Program Performance Standards (Administration on Children, Youth ...
Despite the discrepancy among the parent reports, teacher reports and observational data ...
Manderscheid & Sondheimer, 1996) is Head Start's emphasis on cognitive and academic ...

Improving educational outcomes for poor children

B Jacob… - 2008 - nber.org
... impacts on math scores and on almost all of the other main cognitive skill outcomes in ... programs
improve cognitive outcomes, they may have adverse effects on non-cognitive outcomes like self ...
tied to teacher performance might induce ineffective teachers to locate in hard-to-staff ...

Using family-focused interventions to promote child behavioral readiness for school

K Bierman, R Nix… - A. Booth & AC Crouter, …, 2008 - books.google.com
... the multiple developmental needs of children, rather than focusing on cognitive-linguistic or ... be
associated with children's language development and self-regulation abilities, it might ... Instruction
Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) on children's school performance at the ...

The relations between contextual risk, earned income, and the school adjustment of children from economically disadvantaged families.

BP Ackerman, ED Brown… - Developmental Psychology, 2004 - psycnet.apa.org
... and minimize the influence of changes in family circumstances on academic performance in later
grades ... A primary reason is that skill deficits cumulate and have consequences that sustain and ...
We measured aspects of child cognitive ability in the first-grade assessment with the ...

Child maltreatment, out-of-home placement and academic vulnerability: A fifteen-year review of evidence and future directions

S Stone - Children and Youth Services Review, 2007 - Elsevier
... Potential explanations may include such varying factors as level of child cognitive skills and
abilities, school-related ... to disentangle the effects of age of onset, current (timing) and history
(duration and frequency) of maltreatment on severe academic performance declines in ...

Building a new biodevelopmental framework to guide the future of early childhood policy

JP Shonkoff - Child development, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
... influence of early experience on gene expression is evidence that poor school performance is
not an ... to maternal cortisol and psychosocial stress is associated with human infant cognitive
development. ... Skill formation and the economics of investing in disadvantaged children. ...

[PDF] Health and Early Childhood Development: The Impact of Health on School Readiness and Other Education Outcomes

R Chazen-Cohen… - humancapitalrc.org
... during pregnancy were found to be less likely to leave the study. Attrition among families in ...
promotive effect of EHS on children's cognitive skill scores signals the importance of ... Losing ground
early: Protection, risk and change in poor children's cognitive performance. ...

The RFP Route for Developing Knowledge About Young Children.

EH Grotberg - 1972 - eric.ed.gov
... therefore, require information or knowledge about young children. (Author/DB). Abstractor:
N/A. Reference Count: 0. Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American
Educational Research Association (Chicago, Illinois, April 3-7, 1972). Identifiers: Project Head ...

[PDF] Work Skill Development and Early Childhood Investment

RA Thompson, K Lagattuta… - 2005 - cppr.ucdavis.edu
... A concern with work skill development is important not only to the creation of ... Poor families
have great difficulty providing environments that enhance cognitive and ... numerous reports
to predict higher academic performance, less grade retention, ...

Disrupting the impact of socio-contextual disadvantage on school readiness skill attainment among preschool children: The role of Head Start attendance

KL Callahan - 2010 - scholarworks.uno.edu
... abilities (Coghill, Caplan, Alexandra, Robson, & Kumar, 1982). Therefore, upon school
entry, Page 26. 25 ... cognitive and language outcomes at 1 year of age (Hooper, Burchinal,
Roberts, Zeisel, & Neebe, ... Performance Standards, 2008). ...

[PDF] Interventions for At-Risk Youth in High Poverty Neighbourhoods

RV Maldonado - 2011 - mcmaster.ca
... The results support previous research that Alliances positively impact academic performance,
school/social ... The development of cognitive and academic abilities: Growth curves from an early ...
Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Maladapting Children: A Meta-Analysis ...

Effects of Divorce and Cohabitation Dissolution on Preschoolers' Literacy

J Fagan - Journal of Family Issues, 2012 - jfi.sagepub.com
... into cohabiting parental unions and the high rate of separations among these couples ... II; (Bayley,
1993) especially designed for the ECLS-B. Children's cognitive abilities were assessed ... Controls
for SES, depressive symptoms, and mothers' cognitive stimulation at 24 months are ...

Effect on Preschoolers' Literacy when Never‐Married Mothers Get Married

J Fagan - Journal of Marriage and Family, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
... this time period, suggesting that children experience multiple partnerships among their parents ...
included biological, adoptive, foster, and stepmothers and a very small percentage of ... Bayley,
1993) especially designed for the ECLS–B. Children's cognitive abilities were assessed ...

In Service Training of Head Start Teachers to Overcome Early Risks of Mathematics Failure: The Mathstaar Program.

EA Geist… - College Student Journal, 2009 - eric.ed.gov
... overcome some of the risk factors for low achievement in mathematics that research has linked
to poverty level. ... Its main goal at the outset was to examine the risk factors associated with lower
mathematics achievement as early as kindergarten for children from low ...

Child Poverty in Iran, 1999-2007

M Yazdanpanah… - Social Welfare Quarterly26, 2010 - refahj.ir
... Ayoub, A.; Connor, E., Schlictmann; GR, Vallotton; C., Raikes, H.; Chazan- Cohen, Rc (2009),
"Cognitive skill performance among young children living in poverty: Risk, change, and the
promotive effects of Early Head Start”, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 24, pp 289-305. ...

Countering the Politics of Class, Race, Gender, and Geography in Early Childhood Education

TS Wright - Educational Policy, 2011 - epx.sagepub.com
... than US$40,064 per year, while the wealthiest 20% living in homes ... Creativity, inspiration,
determination, and hope should determine a child's future, not race, class ... Cognitive skill
performance among young children liv- ing in poverty: Risk, change, and the promotive effects ...

Buffering boys and boosting girls: The protective and promotive effects of Early Head Start for children's expressive language in the context of parenting stress

CD Vallotton, T Harewood, CA Ayoub, B Pan… - Early Childhood …, 2011 - Elsevier
... There is wide variation in language skill in early childhood, but by 24 months ... be less involved
with their children, leading to poor social-emotional and cognitive development (Deater ... On average,
EHS has small positive effects on children's cognition, language, and behavior, and ...

The ecology of young children's behaviour and social competence: child characteristics, socio-economic factors and parenting

D Hartas - Oxford Review of Education, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
... Cognitive skill performance among young children living in poverty: risk, change, and the
promotive effects of early Head Start. ... Cognitive skill performance among young children living
in poverty: risk, change, and the promotive effects of early Head Start. ...

[HTML] Early Childhood Intervention and Early Education

SL Judge… - acf.hhs.gov
... Early intervention and mediating processes in cognitive performance of children of
low-income African American families. ... The development of cognitive and academic abilities:
growth curves from an early childhood educational experiment. ...

[PDF] Sarah Holtzclaw

S Cooper - 2011 - partnershiptoendpoverty.org
... A child who has not sufficiently gained essential cognitive skills by the age of three46 often cannot
make up the deficit, which leads in turn to a perpetuation of the cycle of poverty. ... “ Cogni- tive skill
performance among young children living in poverty: Risk, change, and ...

[PDF] An Overview of Childhood Poverty: Pathways and Programs

A Sesma Jr - 2007 - cehd.umn.edu
... is absorbed by the children and it has negative effects on academic performance, among other
things ... Lead poisoning is as- sociated with reading and learning dis- abilities, reduced intelligence ...
most vulner- able may also have positive effects on physical and cognitive outcomes ...

Father residence and father-child relationship quality: Peer relationships and externalizing behavioral problems

NJ Cabrera, GA Cook, KE McFadden… - 2012 - Taylor & Francis
... 2- and 3-year olds: Contributions to language and cognitive development. ... Longitudinal pathways
to competence and psychological adjustment among African American children living in ... of peer
relationships, observational studies of fathers and their young children have shown ...

18 Prevention and Early Intervention for Preschool Children at Risk for Learning and Behavior Problems

M Gettinger, C Ball, L Mulford… - Handbook of youth …, 2009 - books.google.com
... and first grade, which, in turn, predict both poor academic performance and behavior ... play activities
without teacher direction, intentional programs generally produce better cognitive and social ... critical
elements in mind, the first focusing on emergent literacy skill development and ...

The impact of< i> HeadsUp</i>!< i> Reading</i> on early childhood educators' literacy practices and preschool children's literacy skills

B Jackson, R Larzelere, L St Clair, M Corr… - Early Childhood …, 2006 - Elsevier
... In order to impact long-term changes in teachers' skills and performance, the National Center ...
interventions predict differences in child gains beyond that predicted by their pretest abilities
and their ... Among other things, one advantage of HLM is that it does not require equal cell ...

Social risk and protective child, parenting, and child care factors in early elementary school years

M Burchinal, JE Roberts, SA Zeisel… - … Science and Practice, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
... been shown to be one of the strongest predictors of children's academic performance for children ...
aspects of the child's home environment that are believed to foster cognitive development. ... The
Broad Math cluster includes calculations, which mea- sures skill in performing basic ...

School readiness of low-income children at risk for school failure

C Wright, M Diener… - Journal of Children and Poverty, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
... a book you ask, “Show me where you would start to read.” Almost two thirds of these young
children do not ... of children receiving free and reduced lunches, low SAT scores, and high rates
of mobility among their students. ... Principal Teacher responses responses Skill (%) (% ...

Early head start map: Manualized assessment of progress

S Dickstein, R Seifer, M Eguia… - Infant mental health …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
... the US Depart- ment of Health and Human Services, Administration on Children, Youth, and
Families (ACYF), Head Start Bureau's “Head Start Program Performance Standards and ... gross
motor, cognitive and adaptive functioning. ... Parenting skill General parenting issues 01. ...

Educational effects of the Tools of the Mind curriculum: A randomized trial

WS Barnett, K Jung, DJ Yarosz, J Thomas… - Early Childhood …, 2008 - Elsevier
... Among the more noteworthy studies on curriculum are randomized, small-scaled trials, some
dating to ... content can be inefficient or difficult if children lack underlying cognitive skills such ... Game”
is another activity specifically designed to develop self-regulation and other abilities. ...

[PDF] Fostering School Readiness with Preschool Interventions that Promote Social-emotional Learning and Language Skills: The Head Start REDI Project

KL Bierman, RL Nix, CE Domitrovich, JA Welsh… - humancapitalrc.org
... more socially competent behavior among children attending Head Start (Domitrovich, Cortes
& ... of teacher talk (vocabulary, elaboration, cognitive challenge) and sensitivity (availability, ...
acquisition in the targeted domains of language and emergent literacy skill development and ...

A “Head Start” in what pursuit? IQ versus social competence as the objective of early intervention

E Zigler… - … , genes and success: Scientists respond to …, 1997 - books.google.com
... of a comprehensive program should include: A. Improving the child's physical health and physical
abilities. ... Because most early intervention programs were created to improve school performance,
few evaluators ... deal more research is needed, but not of the cognitive-test variety ...

[BOOK] Children in their earliest years: Many get a poor start

JM Patterson, C Watson… - 2003 - epi.umn.edu
... and early educators who are with children for long periods of time each day are among the lowest ...
the literature and include significant deficits in social- emotional functioning, deficits and delays
in cognitive and language functioning, and poor school performance.1-3 ...

[PDF] Policy Approaches to Address the Impact of Poverty on Health

DP Ross - … of the CPHI National Roundtable on Poverty and …, 2002 - publications.gc.ca
... Another effectiveness benchmark of Canada's income security system is its performance compared
to other ... of low birth weight is important because it has been shown that among many other ... report
less stress and more pleasure in caring for their young children and positive ...

Preschool language development among children of adolescent mothers

M Oxford… - Journal of applied developmental psychology, 2006 - Elsevier
... Thus, the influence of maternal cognitive abilities may persist after accounting for the influence
of ... the environment within the context of potentially inherited characteristics or abilities so that ... early
language performance is one of the better predictors of early school performance. ...

Solutions to nutrition-related health problems of preschool children: education and nutritional policies for children

I Darnton-Hill, E Kennedy, B Cogill… - Journal of pediatric …, 2006 - journals.lww.com
... is a major contributor to ill health and cognitive underdevelopment in children (23 ... Poor prenatal,
infant, and child nutrition impedes behavioural and cognitive development, potential work ... to
anaemia, iodine deficiency, and chronic undernutrition in the infant and young child can ...

[BOOK] Health for all children

DMB Hall… - 2006 - books.google.com
... Among the important changes summarised in this updated edition are the new guidance on
Working Together to Safeguard Children, the publication of ... care, and must take into account the
physical and mental health of the adults who interact with children and young people ...

Health Promotion and Prevention in Early Childhood: The Role of Nursing Research in Shaping Policy and Practice

D Gross… - Shaping Health Policy Through Nursing …, 2010 - books.google.com
... Bethell et al., 2002), 40% of parents reported at least one concern about their child's social,
emotional, behavioral, or cognitive develop- ment ... Skill formation and the economics of investing
in disadvantaged children. ... Program performance standards and other regulations. ...

The influence of family beliefs and practices on children's early reading development

S Sonnenschein, G Brody… - … engaged readers in …, 1996 - books.google.com
... they enter kindergarten and beliefs about their own role in fostering skill acquisition in ... children
in Baltimore, suggested that pa- rental expectations for youngsters' future performance in school ...
aspects of the storybook reading interaction as well as the cognitive components can ...

[PDF] A reconceptualization of the effects of undernutrition on children's biological, psychosocial, and behavioral development

E Pollitt, M Golub, K Gorman… - Social Policy Report, 1996 - srcd.org
... biochemical changes in the brain may alter brain function and reduce learning abilities. ... the
development of nutritionally at-risk children and improves cognitive competence as ... not fully explain
delays in development or the comparatively poor test performance of undernourished ...

Effortful control among low-income preschoolers in three cities: Stability, change, and individual differences.

CP Li-Grining - Developmental Psychology, 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
... functioning, and better scholastic performance (Eisenberg, Fabes, Guthrie, & Reiser, 2002;
Marcynyszyn ... tasks place distinct demands on children's behavioral and cognitive skills, with ...
household-based, stratified random-sample survey was administered among 2,402 children ...

Early childhood to young adulthood: An introduction to the special issue

AJ Reynolds… - Children and Youth Services Review, 2010 - Elsevier
... 1. To document patterns of school performance and social competence throughout the
school-age ... links between program participation and later outcomes is explained by cognitive
advantage, family ... of the findings are from studies of model programs with small sample sizes. ...

Fostering high-quality teaching with an enriched curriculum and professional development support: The Head Start REDI program

CE Domitrovich, SD Gest, S Gill… - American …, 2009 - aer.sagepub.com
... of school readiness recognize the importance of both social-emotional and cognitive skills, noting ...
and Head Start in particular, focus narrowly on early academic skill development. ... professional
development efforts, as they provide a concrete model and performance demand to ...

Comprehensive Evidence-Based Social—Emotional Curricula for Young Children An Analysis of Efficacious Adoption Potential

GE Joseph… - … in Early Childhood Special Education, 2003 - tec.sagepub.com
... Denham and Burton (1996) developed an interpersonal cognitive, problem-solving intervention
with ... effects of substance abuse and violence on child development; skill building in ... that intro-
duces specific substance abuse and violence prevention strategies to young children. ...

7. Reducing Violence through the Schools

JD Hawkins… - Violence in American schools: A …, 1998 - books.google.com
... students involved in the experiment earned points for positive weekly ratings by teachers on class
attendance, preparedness, performance, and prosocial be ... The PATHS curriculum enhances
instruction by integrating emotional, cognitive, and behavioral skill development in ...

[BOOK] Development through life: A psychosocial approach

BM Newman… - 2011 - books.google.com
... Human Development and Diversity: Supporting School Readiness for Young Children with
Disabilities ... Classification Skills 301 Computational Skills 303 Metacognition 304 Skill Learning
305 ... Group Identity versus Alienation 370 Group Identity 371 Cognitive Processes That ...

Child development and long-term outcomes: a population health perspective and summary of successful interventions

C Hertzman… - Social Science & Medicine, 1996 - Elsevier
... the prospect of a behavioural intervention having a positive effect in the cognitive domain. ... This
involved a recreation and skill development program which was offered to all children aged ... in
the post-neonatal, preschool, and school- aged period suggest that performance in two ...

Studying the role of family and school in the development of African American preschoolers in violent neighborhoods

SM Randolph, SA Koblinsky… - Journal of Negro Education, 1996 - JSTOR
... & Richters, 1993; Pynoos et al., 1987; Richters & Martinez, 1993); denial and emotional numbing
(eg, Terr, 1989); impairments in school performance, memory, and ... Much less is known about
how growing up in a violent community may influence cognitive or motor abilities. ...

A multilevel model of child-and classroom-level psychosocial factors that support language and literacy resilience of children in Head Start

MF Maier, VE Vitiello… - Early Childhood Research …, 2011 - Elsevier
... level factors in promoting resilience in early language and literacy among preschool children ...
Low language abilities, on the other hand, have been associated with more problem ... therefore,
may represent a significant environmental protective factor for young children at risk. ...

Healthy children ready to learn: an essential collaboration between health and education.

AC Novello, C Degraw… - Public Health Reports, 1992 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... importance of assessment by providers of primary health care of the child's cognitive and
emotional ... such as social, economic, health, and nutrition factors, affect their students' abilities
to learn. ... They also have two to three times the probability ofpoor school performance as they ...

[BOOK] Dual language learners in the early years: Getting ready to succeed in school

KG Ballantyne, AR Sanderman… - 2008 - early-childhood.wikispaces.umb.edu
... 21 Social, Emotional and Cognitive Factors ... Comprehensive research on the subject has found
that no single assessment measure provides a reliable picture of school performance in the early
years ... Rate of substantiated child abuse and neglect among children birth to age 6. ...

Aboriginal early childhood education in Canada: Issues of context

JP Preston, M Cottrell, TR Pelletier… - Journal of Early …, 2012 - ecr.sagepub.com
... contributes to school readiness (Lee et al., 2006), improves academic abilities and increases ...
to the fact that within Canada much disparity exists between the academic performance of
Aboriginal ... Barnett S (1998) Long-term effects on cognitive development in school success. ...

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