Recent research on: Areas of learning and development

Classifying infants and toddlers with developmental vulnerability: who is most likely to receive early intervention?

Diagnostic shortfalls in early childhood chronic stress: a review of the issues

Links shown between neuromotor skills and academic performance (review of study in Nursery World)

Action Imitation at 1½ Years Is Better Than Pointing Gesture in Predicting Late Development of Language Production at 3 Years of Age
A longitudinal assessment of the home literacy environment and early language
A randomized trial examining the effects of parent engagement on early language and literacy: The Getting Ready intervention
At 6-9 months, human infants know the meanings of many common nouns
Better communication research project: Language and literacy attainment of pupils during early years and through KS2: Does teacher assessment at five provide a valid measure of children's current and future educational attainments?
Children's social behaviour, language and literacy in early years
Defining the developmental parameters of temper loss in early childhood: implications for developmental psychopathology
Dietary patterns at 6, 15 and 24 months of age are associated with IQ at 8 years of age
Early vocabulary development: The importance of joint attention and parent-child book reading
Family caring and children's reading and math skills
Home and preschool learning environments and their relations to the development of early numeracy skills
Increasing young children's contact with print during shared reading: longitudinal effects on literacy achievement
Infant feeding: the effects of scheduled vs. on-demand feeding on mothers' wellbeing and children's cognitive development
Long-term outcomes for children with early language problems: beating the odds
Meaningful differences in the everyday experience of young American children
Motivation for reading and writing in kindergarten children
Out of the mouth of babes: first-time disadvantaged mothers and their perceptions of infant communication
Parents and children engaging in storybook reading
Pathways to literacy: connections between family assets and preschool children's emergent literacy skills
Persistent poverty and children's cognitive development. Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study
Ready to learn? Children's pre-academic achievement in pre-Kindergarten programs
Relating preschool quality to children's literacy development
Social disparities in children's vocabulary in early childhood. Does pre-school education help to close the gap?
Supplementing literacy instruction with a media-rich intervention: Results of a randomized controlled trial
The role of language in children's early education outcomes

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