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Effects of Child Care Quality on Young Children's Development
www.gse.harvard.edu/news/features/mccartney05052002.html
Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children - Executive Summary
National Research Council
1998
www.ed.gov/inits/americareads/ReadDiff/read-sum.html
Report from the Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children sponsored by the National Research Council. Information about research-based approaches to helping struggling readers become good readers.
Early Childhood Environmental Scanning Network
www.ideapolicy.org/scanning.htm
The Early Childhood Partners committee of the Policymakers Partnership (PMP) project at the National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE) has set up a scanning network to identify key issues that challenge and create opportunities in the effective implementation of IDEA '97 in the real world.
13 Indicators of Quality Child Care: Research Update
2002
Richard Fiene, Ph.D.
Pennsylvania State University
National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care,
University of Colorado
http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/ccquality-ind02/index.htm
Research on helping keep children safe in child care. Intended to provide guidance for state child care agencies as they think about revising their state child care regulations.
Early Childhood Instruction in the Natural Environment (ERIC Digest E 591) Summary
Marci Hanson, Ph.D., Professor of Special Education San Francisco State University, Council for Exceptional Children
1999
www.ericec.org/digests/e591.html
Discussion of the value of working with young child in their usual environment as opposed to in an office or clinic.
Federal Interagency Coordinating Council (FICC) Web Site
2000
www.fed-icc.org
U.S. Department of Education web site that highlights the government's efforts to help America's infants and pre-schoolers with disabilities and their families.
Early Childhood Assessment Birth to Three Years: AN LDA FACT SHEET - Learning Disabilities Association of America
1998
www.fape.org/idea/How_it_works/lda_fact.html
What to expect when you are having your young child's development evaluated.