Not exact matches
Her counsel consisted
of, among other things, understanding the
whole child, understanding the
development of the
child,
positive reinforcement, affirmation
of a
child's feelings and discipline with love as correction
of negative behavior.
In Denver, low - resource families who received home visiting showed modest benefits in
children's language and cognitive
development.102 In Elmira, only the intervention
children whose mothers smoked cigarettes before the experiment experienced cognitive benefits.103 In Memphis,
children of mothers with low psychological resources104 in the intervention group had higher grades and achievement test scores at age nine than their counterparts in the control group.105 Early Head Start also identified small,
positive effects on
children's cognitive abilities, though the change was for the program as a
whole and not specific to home - visited families.106 Similarly, IHDP identified large cognitive effects at twenty - four and thirty - six months, but not at twelve months, so the effects can not be attributed solely to home - visiting services.107
The effect was small, but was identified in the
whole program group, instead
of only in a smaller subgroup.86 In Memphis, more
positive interactions were observed in the subgroup
of women who possessed low psychological resources.87 Likewise, home - visited mothers in Early Head Start were rated as more supportive during play with their
children than controls, though the effect was small.88 Maternal sensitivity was also examined in Hawaii Healthy Start, the Healthy Families evaluations in San Diego and Alaska, and the Comprehensive
Child Development Program, though none identified significant effects.
In partnership with researchers from related projects in Canada, the UK, South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Australia, Aboriginal organisations and policymakers, we will analyse
whole -
of - population data for New South Wales (NSW) to investigate the determinants
of positive early childhood
development in Aboriginal
children, and assess the impacts
of two «real - world» programmes that were implemented under circumstances where evidence
of their efficacy was unable to be derived from RCTs: the NSW Aboriginal and Maternal Infant Health Service (AMIHS) 45 and the NSW Department
of Family and Community Services (FACS) Brighter Futures Program.46 Early evaluations
of these programmes suggested some
positive changes in proximal outcomes related to their objectives.45, 47, 48 However, each
of these evaluations was limited by one or more
of the following: use
of single data sets, less than 2 years
of outcome data and / or issues
of confounding and selection bias.