Extreme wealth inequality imposes significant constraints on financially vulnerable families, especially the development of children in those families. Child Development Accounts (CDAs)—investment accounts offering financial access, subsidies, and incentives to provide assets for children—are designed reduce over time promote human development. We review existing evidence from a test CDA policy...

Children born in societies with a heavy social burden of HIV/AIDS, poor health and nutrition, and limited stimulation face additional challenges to flourishing before they turn six compared to children in societies that are not characterized by these environmental strains. Particularly, multiply-stressed caregivers, affected by HIV/AIDS and poverty, might have a limited capacity to provide care...

Brain structural covariance networks (SCNs) composed of regions with correlated variation are altered in neuropsychiatric disease and change with age. Little is known about the development of SCNs in early childhood, a period of rapid cortical growth. We investigated the development of structural and maturational covariance networks, including default, dorsal attention, primary visual and senso...

AIMS The study aimed to create and evaluate the educational effectiveness of a digital resource instructing paediatric trainees in a systematic approach to critical and quality observation of normal child development. METHODS A digital educational resource was developed utilising the skills of an expert developmental paediatrician who was videoed assessing normal early child development at a ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the impacts of the expansion of an evidence-based full- and part-day early childhood development program on multiple indicators of school readiness, attendance, and parental involvement for a large cohort of low-income children. METHODS This study involved the end-of-preschool follow-up of a nonrandomized, matched-group cohort of 2630 predominantly low-income, ethnic mi...

Background: Toddlers with celiac disease are at risk of developmental delay due to frequent hospitalization and food deprivation. But an appropriate program to improve development of these children does not exist. Aim: Determination of the effect of a developmental stimulation program on development of toddlers’ fine motor skills. Methods: This clinical trial conducted on 50 eligible 1-3 year-o...

Background The initial years of life particularly the first two years are regarded as the most important brain development period. This study attempted to determine the effect of care package on motor development in 12-month-old infants in Saqqez-Iran. Materials and Methods:This study was a clinical trial conducted in 2016 on 70 infants of 12 months of age selected randomly in intervention and...