Today I will describe how researchers and educational training staff from the Center for Improving the Readiness of Children for Learning and Education (CIRCLE), University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center, have been involved in the implementation and evaluation of a model of professional development for Head Start teachers. CIRCLE's research and training efforts have been supported with ...

BACKGROUND Previous studies identified associations between maternal obesity and childhood neurodevelopment, but few examined paternal obesity despite potentially distinct genetic/epigenetic effects related to developmental programming. METHODS Upstate KIDS (2008-2010) recruited mothers from New York State (excluding New York City) at ∼4 months postpartum. Parents completed the Ages and Stage...

In 2007, The Lancet declared that early childhood development was a global challenge of the greatest urgency. 4 years later, we have made progress, but still have far to go in making early childhood development the global priority it must be. The importance of early childhood development remains profound. As the accompanying papers in The Lancet show so clearly, the prenatal and postnatal perio...

8 www.thelancet.com Vol 369 January 6, 2007 analysis of the incidence of cerebral palsy in survivors, enabling assessment of special health-care needs and the potential burden to the health-care system and to families. Despite the encouraging decrease in the prevalence of cerebral palsy reported by the SCPE group, which is consistent with fi ndings from our institution for infants of less than ...

this goal requires further clarification: Does the practice want to improve the ordering of lead screening tests or improve the documentation of the screening values in the charts? Each option requires a different approach and consequently a different PDSA cycle. Further information on these methods can be obtained from the Improvement Guide3 or online resources such as the Institute for Health...

We consider 3 questions regarding the effects of economic deprivation on child development. First, how are developmental outcomes in childhood affected by poverty and such poverty correlates as single parenthood, ethnicity, and maternal education? Second, what are the developmental consequences of the duration and timing of family economic deprivation? And, third, what is the comparative influe...

A child's early experiences and environments have a significant, measurable effect on later life trajectories of health and well-being. Each child's own world, especially parents and other caregivers, literally sculpts the brain and impacts stress pathways. Effective early childhood interventions exist that can improve adult and societal outcomes. In this statement, the Canadian Paediatric Soci...

While the number of computers in the classroom continues to increase and tremendous support for technology integration exists in government, business, and academia, a major discrepancy exists between the level of technology use that is expected from the educators and the actual use and integration of technology in the classroom. However, effective technology integration in early childhood educa...