* NCCIC:
Brain Development in Infants and Toddlers:
Information
for Parents and Caregivers
The
Children of the Cost, Quality & Outcomes Study Go to School
High-quality
child care positively affects children's cognitive and social skills
through the second grade, according to a major national study by
researchers at four universities, including researchers at FPG and the
National Center for Early Development & Learning at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Children in quality care programs when they were 3 and 4 years old scored
better on math, language and social skills development through the early
elementary years than children in poor-quality care.
Researchers, who began following these children 4 years ago as part
of the Cost, Quality & Outcomes Study, say policy implications are
significant.
* Early
Learning, Later Success: The Abecedarian Study
Early
Childhood Educational Intervention for Poor Children
The
Abecedarian Project was a carefully controlled study in which 57 infants
from low-income families were randomly assigned to receive early
intervention in a high quality child care setting and 54 were in a
non-treated control group. This degree of scientific control gives
investigators greater confidence that differences between the treated and
untreated individuals can be attributed to the intervention itself, rather
than to differences among
treated and untreated families.
* The
NICHD Study of Early Child Care
The
NICHD Study of Early Child Care is the most comprehensive child care study
conducted to date to determine how variations in child care are related to
children’s development. In 1991, a team of NICHD-supported researchers
enrolled 1,364 children in the study and have now followed most of them
through the first seven years of their lives. Over
the past two years, the research team has presented its findings on
the relationship between child care and children’s development through
the age of three, and will continue to analyze the information they have
gathered from the 10 child care study sites across the U.S.
