Sentences with phrase «national child development program»

As a national child development program for children from birth to age five, Head Start provides services to promote academic, social and emotional development, as well as providing social, health and nutrition services for income - eligible families.

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The Early Childhood Development Initiative (ECDI) is one of the programs developed under the National Children's Agenda.

On page 1,967 of the 2,232 - page bill — immediately following a section about the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act and the National Criminal History Background Check and Criminal History Review Program — there is an addendum to a 1939 labor law that specifically carves out an exemption for minor league baseball.

Our purpose here is to explain why these gains are now within reach and to propose an initial national strategy to move the nation toward community - wide programs that can improve parenting, thus reducing child maltreatment and enhancing child development.

Last week, the National Toxicology Program of the Health and Human Services Department found there was some concern the chemical could disrupt development of the prostate gland and brain, and cause behavioral problems for infants and children.

Sharing our vision of a «whole child» approach to early childhood education, in which play and social / emotional development are fully integrated into academic programming, Santa Barbara County preschools achieved national accreditation at eight times the California average as of January 2015.

Findings from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a rigorous Congressionally - mandated study, indicate that the program had modest but positive impacts on EHS children at age three in cognitive, language, and social - emotional development, compared to a control group.xxiii In addition, their parents scored higher than control group parents on such aspects of the home environment as parenting behavior and knowledge of infant - toddler development.

In 1992, in response to epidemiologic reports from Europe and Australia, the AAP recommended that infants be placed for sleep in a nonprone position as a strategy for reducing the risk of SIDS.9 The «Back to Sleep» campaign was initiated in 1994 under the leadership of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development as a joint effort of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration, the AAP, the SIDS Alliance (now First Candle), and the Association of SIDS and Infant Mortality Programs.10 The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development began conducting national surveys of infant care practices to evaluate the implementation of the AAP recommeNational Institute of Child Health and Human Development as a joint effort of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration, the AAP, the SIDS Alliance (now First Candle), and the Association of SIDS and Infant Mortality Programs.10 The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development began conducting national surveys of infant care practices to evaluate the implementation of the AAP recommeNational Institute of Child Health and Human Development began conducting national surveys of infant care practices to evaluate the implementation of the AAP recommenational surveys of infant care practices to evaluate the implementation of the AAP recommendation.

Rady Children's is the lead agency for Safe Kids San Diego and the Injury Free Coalition for Kids; both are national and international coalitions devoted to injury surveillance, program development and implementation for childhood injury prevention.

From the Consortium on Safe Labor, which was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, through contract number HHSN267200603425C.

The study was supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (K23 HD054720), Flora Family Foundation, UCSF Catalyst Award, UCSF Resource Allocation Program, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Award, Stanford University Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health, Spectrum Child Health & Clinical and Translational Science Award and the Extraordinary Brain Series of the Dyslexia Foundation.

This study was supported by Norma C. and Albert I. Geller via the Gynecological Cancer Translation Research Program at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, and grants from The Mary Kay Foundation (to A.D. and R.X.), the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under the NIH Director's New Innovator award number DP2HD084068 (to R.X.), The National Cancer Institute award number R011CA197780 - 01A1 (to A.D.), and The Young Scientist Foundation (A.D.).

The research, supported by the National Institutes of Health - National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Delaware INBRE program, is published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

Program in Physical Biology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.

Cell Biology and Metabolism Program, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.

«This study shows that a well run early childhood intervention program can have benefits well into adult life,» said James Griffin, Ph.D., Deputy Chief of the Child Development Branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health.

Funding: NIH's National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and National Center for Research Resources (NCRR); Kaiser Permanente Northern California Community Benefit Program; and W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

LA JOLLA, CA — A multi-institutional team headed by Ursula Bellugi, professor and director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, has been awarded a $ 5.5 million Program Project Grant by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to link social behavior to its underlying neurobiological and molecular genetic basis using Williams syndrome as a model.

The research was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health (MH58846, MH732525), the National Institute for Child Health and Development (HD35471), the National Science Foundation (Center for Behavioral Neuroscience: IBN 9876754) and the Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (Primate centers: P51OD11132).

ONE - PARENT SAMPLE SET PARENTAL GUIDANCE RULES: Maternally methylated (red dots) and paternally methylated (blue dots) regions across the human autosomal chromosomes, based on studies of uniparental disomy samplesGENOME RES, 24:554 - 69, 2014 RESEARCHERS Kazuhiko Nakabayashi, Division Chief, Department of Maternal - Fetal Biology, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan; David Monk, Principal Investigator, Epigenetics and Cancer Biology Program, Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research ORGANISM Human METHODS Bisulfite - seq; bisulfite - chip Methylation is typically associated with the silencing of the nonexpressed allele, making it a convenient marker for imprinted genes, though it's possible for patterns of differential methylation to exist in tissues where both alleles are expressed.

The program is unique in its concentration of nationally and internationally recognized leaders in the areas of new drug development, cell and gene therapy and design and conduct of both local and national clinical trials through the Children's Oncology Group (COG).

Our clinicians direct the clinical operations of the Children's Health NONC (neuro - oncology) program and are members of the Children's Oncology Group (COG), a national childhood brain tumor consortium that provides our patients access to experimental therapies and new treatment developments.

Funding was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Eye Institute, California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, National Basic Research Program of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province.

The research conducted at Gladstone was funded by the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke Research Program Award (R35 NS097976), the NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (K12 - HD072222, K12 - HD000850), the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (RG4985), and the United States Department of Defense (MS160082).

«This is an important advance in explaining how sperm become hypermotile in the female reproductive tract,» said Stuart Moss, Ph.D, director of the male reproductive health program at NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, which funded the study.

The pleasantly brief text, which spans just 155 pages, offers a clear explanation of how anti-poverty policy, national politics, education policy, and changes in views of child development shaped the program in the 1960s.

The program announced last month marks the first time the agencies — the Department of Education, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development — have collaborated to provide funds for research into learning.

An assessment of text connectives for early primary school students, as well as a five - week intervention that demonstrated promising results, are part of the products of this project.Funding source: The Vocabulary Instruction and Assessment for Spanish Speakers (VIAS) project was a 5 - year program of research funded through grants from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

For instance, I directed a national Head Start Quality Research Center; created a program, Dialogic Reading (which is a widely used and effective intervention for enhancing the language development and book knowledge of young children from low - income families); and authored an assessment tool, the Get Ready to Read Screen, that has become a staple of early intervention program evaluation.

She will lead the National Academy of Early Childhood Programs, which handles the accreditation of child - development pPrograms, which handles the accreditation of child - development programsprograms.

The study was funded in part by the Office of Special Education Programs, US Department of Education, Grant #H023E90020, and by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Core Grant #HD15052, Douglas Fuchs, Project Director.

http://www.nationalreadingpanel.org/ A Synthesis of Research on Reading from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Bonita Grossen University of Oregon November, 1997 The National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) educational research program, initiated in 1965, began to focus more on reading difficulties as it became clear how extensive the reading problem was in the general population.

Presenters: Sean Slade, director of Whole Child Programs, ASCD; Lee Yee Cheong - Lim, deputy director of the Health Promotion Board under the Singapore Ministry of Health, Singapore; Louise Rowling, associate professor for health promotion in the faculty of education and social work at the University of Sydney, Australia; and Jo Mason, acting national business manager and national professional product development manager for the Principals Australia Institute and MindMatters, Australia

However, national studies of the program report early successes with regard to the number of providers receiving support such as coaching and the number of infants and toddlers receiving comprehensive services.Office of Early Childhood Development, Administration for Children and Families.

http://www.nationalreadingpanel.org/ A Synthesis of Research on Reading from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Author: Bonita Grossen University of Oregon November, 1997 The National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) educational research program, initiated in 1965, began to focus more on reading difficulties as it became clear how extensive the reading problem was in the general population.

Our curriculum framework and program development is informed by program standards developed by the National Association for Gifted Children.

Helios» curriculum framework and program development is informed by program standards developed by the National Association for Gifted Children.

Why Children Succeed or Fail at Reading, Research from National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Program in Learning Disabilities Putting Reading First - Southwest Education Development Laboratory Reading Recovery: What Do School Districts Get for Their Money?

Taking Steps Toward PK - 3 Success offers National Education Association (NEA) affiliates specific advice on state and district policies addressing class size, supporting full - day Prekindergarten and Kindergarten programs, promoting high quality teachers, targeting professional development to improve PreK - 3rd practice, clarifying the role of para-educators (especially in support of bilingual and bicultural children), and providing for adequate planning time for teachers within grades and between grades to develop integrated and coherent programs and practices throughout the age span (alignment).

Steven holds a Masters of Education in Early Childhood and Primary Education, National Board Certification in Early Childhood Generalist, and a Child Development Program Director Permit.

The National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) Foundation Task Force on Early Learning recently recommended that pre-service training «include a focus on child development, knowledge and practice to promote children's school readiness, early childhood curricula and assessment, and approaches to family engagement as well as the interrelationship between programs that serve children up to age 5 and K - 3 programs.»

Teachers College, Columbia University; New York, NY $ 656,000 over two years on behalf of the National Center for Children and Families for a comprehensive analysis of variation by NYC UPK program setting, governance, and community district in teacher characteristics, professional development, instructional approach, and program structure.

1979 National Institute on Out - of - School Time (originally known as the School - Age Child Care Project) begins extensive research, education, training, publication, and program development designed to improve the quality of children's out - of - school time.

National Education Association, American Federation of Teachers, Preventing Reading Difficulties, National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, Office of Special Initiatives, Office of Representative William F. Goodling (R - PA), Office of the America Reads Program, Council of Chief State School Officers, National Institute for Literacy, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and International Reading Association

(e) The board shall establish the information needed in an application for the approval of a charter school; provided that the application shall include, but not be limited to, a description of: (i) the mission, purpose, innovation and specialized focus of the proposed charter school; (ii) the innovative methods to be used in the charter school and how they differ from the district or districts from which the charter school is expected to enroll students; (iii) the organization of the school by ages of students or grades to be taught, an estimate of the total enrollment of the school and the district or districts from which the school will enroll students; (iv) the method for admission to the charter school; (v) the educational program, instructional methodology and services to be offered to students, including research on how the proposed program may improve the academic performance of the subgroups listed in the recruitment and retention plan; (vi) the school's capacity to address the particular needs of limited English - proficient students, if applicable, to learn English and learn content matter, including the employment of staff that meets the criteria established by the department; (vii) how the school shall involve parents as partners in the education of their children; (viii) the school governance and bylaws; (ix) a proposed arrangement or contract with an organization that shall manage or operate the school, including any proposed or agreed upon payments to such organization; (x) the financial plan for the operation of the school; (xi) the provision of school facilities and pupil transportation; (xii) the number and qualifications of teachers and administrators to be employed; (xiii) procedures for evaluation and professional development for teachers and administrators; (xiv) a statement of equal educational opportunity which shall state that charter schools shall be open to all students, on a space available basis, and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or academic achievement; (xv) a student recruitment and retention plan, including deliberate, specific strategies the school will use to ensure the provision of equal educational opportunity as stated in clause (xiv) and to attract, enroll and retain a student population that, when compared to students in similar grades in schools from which the charter school is expected to enroll students, contains a comparable academic and demographic profile; and (xvi) plans for disseminating successes and innovations of the charter school to other non-charter public schools.

National Education Association, American Federation of Teachers, Preventing Reading Difficulties, National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, Office of Special Initiatives, Office of Representative William F. Goodling (R - PA), Office of the America Reads Program, Council of Chief State School Officers, National Institute for Literacy, and Harvard Graduate School of Education

National Education Association, American Federation of Teachers, Preventing Reading Difficulties, National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, Office of Special Initiatives, Office of Representative William F. Goodling (R - PA), and Office of the America Reads Program

In this presentation, Georgia Hall, Ph.D., senior research scientist at the National Institute for Out - of - School Time at the Wellesley Centers for Women, will share research findings from two studies (NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development; Program Practices: An Investigation of Physical Activity and Healthy Eating Standards and Practices in Out - of - School Time Programs) that help us to understand children's engagement in physical activity and how to promote involvement on an individual and programProgram Practices: An Investigation of Physical Activity and Healthy Eating Standards and Practices in Out - of - School Time Programs) that help us to understand children's engagement in physical activity and how to promote involvement on an individual and programprogram level.

The program meets national and state early childhood special education professional development standards for the promotion of development and learning of young children from birth to age 8 in inclusive settings.

The program supports national and state ECSE standards that promote the development of young children with disabilities in inclusive settings.