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An Evaluation of Lifestart, a Universal Home-Based Parenting Programme in Ireland Aimed at Improving Parent and Child Outcomes
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Sarah Miller; Laura Dunne; Sharon Millen; Erin Early; Laura Grant; Jenny Davison; Clare McGeady – Irish Educational Studies, 2024
This five-year randomised controlled trial explored the impact of the Lifestart home visiting parenting programme, on parent and child development outcomes. The Lifestart Programme is a universal and structured child-centred programme of information and practical activity for parents of children aged from birth to five years of age. In total, 424…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Parent Child Relationship, Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation
Enrolment in the First Stage of Early Childhood Education and Students' Academic Performance: A Cross-Country Analysis
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Luis Alejandro Lopez-Agudo; Oscar David Marcenaro-Gutierrez – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2024
Parents have the option of enrolling their children in the first stage of early childhood education (from 0 to 3 years of age). However, not all parents decide to do so, waiting until the second stage of early childhood education to enrol them in the education system (from 3 to 5 years of age), or even until compulsory education when their…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Enrollment Influences, Parent Role, Decision Making
The Child Attachment Relationship Guide: Informing Child Protection and Fostering Social Work
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Lisa O'Reilly – Child Care in Practice, 2024
This article presents the novel Child Attachment Relationship (CAR) Guide for social workers in child protection and fostering. The Guide was created to promote social workers' understandings of children's attachment relationship and to identify the means through which those understandings might be enhanced towards their practice. The research and…
Descriptors: Child Safety, Child Welfare, Social Work, Parent Child Relationship
Handbook of Early Language Education. Springer International Handbooks of Education
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Schwartz, Mila, Ed. – Springer, 2022
This is the first international and interdisciplinary handbook to offer a comprehensive and an in-depth overview of findings from contemporary research, theory, and practice in early childhood language education in various parts of the world and with different populations. The contributions by leading scholars and practitioners are structured to…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Language Acquisition, Child Development
Infant Language Predicts Fathers' Vocabulary in Infant-Directed Speech
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Quigley, Jean; Nixon, Elizabeth – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Research on sources of individual difference in parental Infant-Directed Speech (IDS) is limited and there is a particular lack of research on fathers' compared to mothers' speech. This study examined the predictive relations between infant characteristics and variability in paternal lexical diversity (LD) in dyadic free play with two-year-olds (M…
Descriptors: Fathers, Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Speech Communication
Measuring and Meeting the Needs of Children and Families in the Community: Survey of Parents on a Housing Estate in Dublin, Ireland
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Axford, Nick; Whear, Rebecca – Child Care in Practice, 2008
The methodological and empirical literature on measuring the need of child populations is sparse. What does exist is more orientated towards children in receipt of non-universal or specialist services, overlooking those children with similar needs who are not in contact with such services. Further, there is a tendency often for need analyses not…
Descriptors: Living Standards, Children, Public Housing, Foreign Countries