centers and complemented these efforts with a group-based parenting support program. Children in the integrated intervention …-emotional development than children in centers receiving teacher training alone at the 18-month follow-up. However, the study finds no …

Longitudinal patterns of child development and socioeconomic status are described for a cohort of children in …

planning and evaluating programs or interventions aimed at improving the health and development of infants and young children … tests typically used with children under five years; provide guidelines for selecting and adapting tests for use in … developing countries, and make recommendations for planning successful assessment strategies. The toolkit focuses on children who …

parents and improve emergent literacy skills in children. The intervention was a modified dialogic reading training program …Worldwide, 250 million children under five (43 percent) are not meeting their developmental potential because they lack … benefits for children's development, but the programs are often expensive and resource intensive. The objective of this study …

In many low- and middle-income countries, young children learn a mother tongue or indigenous language at home before …, assessments of children before school age, conducted in a nation's official language, may not fully reflect a child's development … vocabulary. This study assessed 505 children ages 2 to 6 in rural communities in Western Kenya with comparable vocabulary tests …

Parents play a crucial role in the promotion of early childhood development, and understanding parental perceptions of … asked to rank their child's intelligence in comparison with other children in the community, and the rankings were compared … with children's scores on an assessment of developmental abilities across multiple domains. Using cross-sectional data on …