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The Long-Term Effects of Institutional Rearing, Foster Care Intervention and Disruptions in Care on Brain Electrical Activity in Adolescence
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Debnath, Ranjan; Tang, Alva; Zeanah, Charles H.; Nelson, Charles A.; Fox, Nathan A. – Developmental Science, 2020
Exposure to early psychosocial deprivation as a result of institutional care disrupts typical brain development. The Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP) is the first longitudinal study to investigate the neurodevelopment of institutionalized infants randomized to a foster care (FCG) intervention versus care as usual (CAUG). Here, we…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Placement, Child Development
Nutrition, Response-Contingent Stimulation, and the Maternal Deprivation Syndrome: Results of an Early Intervention Program
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Ramey, Craig T.; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1975
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Environment, Home Visits, Infants, Intellectual Development
Salient Features from the Literature, with Implications for Parent-Infant Programming.
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Simmons-Martin, Audrey – American Annals of the Deaf, 1983
The article highlights literature on parent-infant programing, with particular emphasis on the role of parents, a direct and positive relationship between the gains achieved by very young hearing impaired children, and the extent to which their parents were taught to participate in their early education. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Environment, Government Role, Hearing Impairments, Infants
Research on Infancy of Special Relevance for Mental Health. Matrix No. 11A.
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Provence, Sally – 1982
Research relevant to planning and practice in the area of infant mental health is discussed in this paper. First, three examples of research approaches that reflect current attitudes are given. The first example represents those studies in which there is an effort to closely coordinate physiological and behavioral studies. The second example…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Child Caregivers, Child Development, Competence
Ypsilanti-Carnegie Infant Education Project. Progress Report.
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Ypsilanti Public Schools, MI. – 1969
Results of the first 6 months of the Ypsilanti-Carnegie Infant Education Project are provided, including quantitative data and a case study, a discussion of the curriculum employed in the home and illustration of curriculum practices, and research design changes. The purpose of the project is to assess the effectiveness of systematic intervention…
Descriptors: Child Development, Data Collection, Disadvantaged Environment, Early Experience
Nutrition, Development, and Social Behavior. Proceedings of the Conference on the Assessment of Tests of Behavior From Studies of Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere.
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Kallen, David J., E. – 1973
Contents of this book include the following papers, followed by discussion and comment: "Malnutrition and Animal Behavior," David A. Levitsky and Richard H. Barnes; "Malnutrition in Infants," Henry N. Ricciuti; "Nutrition and the Community," David J. Kallen; "A Methodological Note: The Development of Visual Attention in Infants," A. C.…
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Cognitive Development, Community Involvement, Disadvantaged Environment
Parent Assisted Learning Strategies: The Development of an Early Intervention Program for Parents and Their Infants.
Schrock, John H. – 1975
This report describes the development, implementation and evaluation of a pilot early intervention program for parents and their infants 1 to 36 months old. Parents were trained by paraprofessionals (under the direction of professionals) to increase their psychomotor areas. The pilot project included 90 families with children under three years of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Disadvantaged Environment, Early Childhood Education, Guides
Planning a Program for a Community-Based Infant/Family Development Center.
Farrar, Elizabeth B. – 1986
In Belle Glade, Florida, a slum populated by Blacks, Whites, Hispanics, migrant farmworkers, and Haitians, where the incidence of most major health risks was far greater than anywhere else in the state, a program was planned and partially implemented which aimed to provide health services to at-risk, disadvantaged teenage mothers and their…
Descriptors: Birth Weight, Community Action, Community Health Services, Community Problems