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Advocates for Children of New Jersey, 2023
Advocates for Children of New Jersey's latest report, "Still No Room for Babies: Child Care Staffing Crisis Impacts Supply of Infant-Toddler Child Care," reveals a widespread shortage of infant and toddler child care. A statewide survey of child care centers serving infants and toddlers found that licensed centers have the capacity to…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Labor Market, Supply and Demand, Infants
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Nikitina, Irina L.; Sarakaeva, Leyla R.; Kelmanson, Igor A. – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
Thirty-three children treated for congenital hyperinsulinism (CHI) (13 boys; 13 with focal forms of CHI, median age 10 months) entered the study. The mothers were requested to fill-in the Ages and Stages Questionnaire to estimate communication, gross motor, fine motor, problem solving and personal-social skills. Children with focal forms had…
Descriptors: Congenital Impairments, Diseases, Child Development, Communication Skills
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Elwick, Sheena; Wong, Sandie; Harrison, Linda; Williams, Kate E.; McFarland, Laura; Dealtry, Lysa; Janus, Magdalena – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2023
This article discusses infant-toddler educators' perspectives of using the Observe, Reflect, Improve Children's Learning tool (ORICL) in practice. ORICL is a new tool informed by implementation science and co-designed with Australian early childhood education and care policy-makers, practitioners, and service providers. It aims to support…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Infants
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Hooper, Alison – Reading Teacher, 2023
The article highlights connections between music and movement activities and emergent literacy development among infants and toddlers. I review how music is linked to phonological awareness, oral language, vocabulary, and other related skills that support reading, like executive function. I also highlight the benefits of including…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Music, Play, Singing
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Foley, Sarah; Devine, Rory T.; Hughes, Claire – Developmental Psychology, 2023
This study examined the development of caregiver mind-mindedness--defined as the propensity to see one's child as an agent with an independent mind--across the first 1,000 days of life. At four timepoints (i.e., third trimester of pregnancy, 4, 14, and 24 months postpartum), 384 first-time mothers (M[subscript age] = 32.55, SD = 3.63 years) and…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Mothers, Fathers, Infants
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Lee, Yujin; Zeng, Songtian; Douglass, Anne; Reyes, Arazeliz; Johnson, Nicole – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023
Low pay and unequal wages make it hard to recruit and retain the high-quality early educators that young children need to thrive in early care and education (ECE) programs. Not only are early educator wages lower than those of comparable workers, but there may also be racial and ethnic wage disparities within the ECE workforce. Using a…
Descriptors: Race, Ethnicity, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Salaries
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Morris, Ronald V.; Shockley, Denise – Childhood Education, 2023
Students and their families living in poverty need support to reach their potential through education. In small, rural communities, such as the Appalachian area of Ohio, strong partnerships work to mutually support educators, families, and students. Educational service centers work with governmental agencies, state grants, local community…
Descriptors: Poverty, Rural Areas, Family School Relationship, Family Needs
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Bang, Janet Y.; Bohn, Manuel; Ramírez, Joel, Jr.; Marchman, Virginia A.; Fernald, Anne – Developmental Science, 2023
Variation in how frequently caregivers engage with their children is associated with variation in children's later language outcomes. One explanation for this link is that caregivers use both verbal behaviors, such as labels, and non-verbal behaviors, such as gestures, to help children establish reference to objects or events in the world.…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Spanish Speaking, Toddlers, Nonverbal Communication
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Turco, Rosa G.; Rowe, Meredith L.; Blatt, Joseph H. – First Language, 2023
Despite the documented rise of children's use of mobile media devices in the United States, particularly in lower-income homes, there is limited research on how children and parents interact together with these types of devices. This study sought to describe and investigate how parents and their 3-year-old children use one type of mobile digital…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Profiles, Electronic Books, Toddlers
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Lisa L. Hunter; Jennifer Vannest; David R. Moore; Maria Barnes-Davis; Chelsea Blankenship; Lauren Prather; Jody Caldwell-Kurtzman; Nehal Parikh – Volta Review, 2023
Worldwide, 15 million babies are "born too soon" every year (Blencowe et al., 2012; Howson et al., 2013). Remarkably, prematurity survival rates now exceed 93% across all countries. More than 360,000 preterm babies survived in the United States in 2020; 10% of all births (Blencowe et al., 2012; Howson et al., 2013). While this is an…
Descriptors: Premature Infants, Perinatal Influences, Language Impairments, Hearing Impairments
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Kinkead-Clark, Zoyah – Teacher Development, 2023
In Jamaica, the majority of practitioners working with infants and toddlers are largely untrained. While continuing professional development (CPD) provides practitioners with the skills to meet children's needs, the provision of CPD also serves as the means by which nursery practitioners upgrade their competencies. This study presents the findings…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development, Educational Needs
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Chikondi Maleta; Edrinnie Elizabeth Lora-Kayambazinthu; Patrick Kambewa; Anthony Chigeda – Educational Planning, 2023
Early nutrition supplementation's effect on children's reading ability was assessed during the conduct of the study. The study methodology followed children who participated in an early nutrition supplementation intervention and conducted a reading test to measure how well the children read. The effect of school resource endowment on student…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Reading Skills, Intervention, Reading Achievement
Alapika Jatkar; Dunia Garrido; Shuting Zheng; Greyson Silverman; Heba Elsayed; Paige Huguely Davis; Helen Lee; Elizabeth R. Crais; John Sideris; Lauren Turner-Brown; Grace T. Baranek; Linda R. Watson; Rebecca Grzadzinski – Journal of Early Intervention, 2023
Baseline child characteristics may predict treatment outcomes in children with or at elevated likelihood of developing autism (EL-ASD). Little is known about the role of child sensory and language features on treatment outcome. Participants were randomly assigned to a parent-mediated intervention or control condition. Analyses explored the…
Descriptors: Toddlers, At Risk Persons, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Natalie Brezack; Sarah Pan; Jessica Chandler; Amanda L. Woodward – Grantee Submission, 2023
From early in life, children learn to perform actions on the objects in their environments. Although children learn from observing others' actions, actively engaging with the material to be learned can be important for learning. This study tested whether instruction that included opportunities for children to be active supported toddlers' action…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Child Behavior, Modeling (Psychology), Observational Learning
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Charlotte Allan – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
This paper offers guidance for remote communication with young children based on an interpretive study of participants engaged in an online Theatre for Early Years (TEY) event, "Up and Down." Drawing on practices used for in-person performance, the theatre-makers engaged interactively with children aged 1 and 2 and their accompanying…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Toddlers, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
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