Joint attention, or the shared focus of attention between objects or events and a social partner, is a crucial milestone in the development of social communication and a notable area of deficit in children with autism spectrum disorder. While valid parent-report screening measures of social communication are available, the majority of these…

The Early Learning Challenge (ELC) program awarded more than $1 billion in four-year grants to 20 States to implement comprehensive and cohesive high-quality early learning systems that support young children with high needs and their families. A key lever in making these improvements was the enhancement of States' Quality Rating and Improvement…

An attempt was made to gather information about working women and to learn what provisions they made for the care of their preschool age children while they worked. In the pursuit of this information, the following tasks were performed: (1) documentation of where and how children are cared for while their mothers work, (2) finding out what working…