Contributors -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction: The importance of early childhood development, education, and intervention -- I. Assessment -- II.
Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace in their early years. This provides a critical foundation for lifelong progre
How we raise young children is one of today's most highly personalized and sharply politicized issues, in part because each of us can claim some level of "exper
Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familyâ€"which includes all primary caregiversâ€"are at the fo
Children's health has clearly improved over the past several decades. Significant and positive gains have been made in lowering rates of infant mortality and mo
