Research

Peel

Child Development / Early Learning

Challenging Behaviour (Early Learning)

Child Care/Early Learning Centres (Early Learning)

Communication (Early Learning)

• Peel Preschool Speech and Language Services

Curriculum (Early Learning)

Development (Early Learning)

• A Competent Learner
• A framework to support children in their earliest years
• A Journal for Life - For 2 to 3 yr olds
• A Strong Child
• Improving The Odds, 2003 Edition Manual
• Understanding the Early Years, 2003

Diversity (Early Learning)

Family Matters (Early Learning)

General (Early Learning)

• Child Care Cash Not Enough (Brief Article)

Quick Links (General) (Early Learning)

• Peel Related Information
• Social Planning Council of Peel: promotes social justice by facilitating citizen participation in the identification of social issues and in the planning and implementation of collaborative actions to address those issues.

Health & Nutrition (Early Learning)

• A Healthy Child
• A longitudinal study of child maltreatment
• A Quiet Place
• Child Health Research
• Children's Health: A Nation's Wealth
• Improving Child Health in the Community
• Improving Child Health through Nutrition
• Improving Children's Health

Quick Links (Health & Nutrition) (Early Learning)

• Obesity
• Peel Health

Literacy (Reading and Writing)/Numeracy (Early Learning)

School Age (Early Learning)

• Peel Reading Attitudes Survey Report, 2004
• EDI Results, 2002

Quick Links (School Age) (Early Learning)

• Peel District School Board

Social Skill Development (Early Learning)

Special Needs (Early Learning)

Theory (Early Learning)

 

Youth Development

Challenging Behaviour (Youth)

Communication (Youth)

Curriculum (Youth)

Development (Youth)

Diversity (Youth)

Family Matters (Youth)

General (Youth)

Health & Nutrition (Youth)

Literacy (Reading and Writing)/Numeracy (Youth)

Social Skill Development (Youth)

Special Needs (Youth)

Theory (Youth)

 

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Ontario

Child Development / Early Learning

Challenging Behaviour (Early Learning)

• Challenge of Children with Behaviour Difficulties
• Effective Discipline

Child Care/Early Learning Centres (Early Learning)

• Choosing Safe Child Care
• Flexible Child Care
• Ontario Early Years Centre in Your Community Region of Peel

Quick Links (Child Development / Early Learning)

• Three Communities to Showcase McGuinty's Governments Best Start Plan

Communication (Early Learning)

• Finding The Words
• Help Your Child Communicate by Improving Listening Skills
• Help Your Child Communicate Using Play
• Help Your Child Communicate Using Words
• Tips for Home Speech Therapy

Curriculum (Early Learning)

Development (Early Learning)

• Behaviorism and Developmental Approaches
• Children Deserve Better
• The Early Years Study Three Years Later, 2002
• The Hurried Child
• Understanding the Early Years, Results of a Community Mapping Study in North York, 2001

Diversity (Early Learning)

• Does Family Income Affect the Healthy Development of Children

Early Identification (Early Learning)

Quick Links (Early Identification) (Early Learning)

• OAICD, Best Practises for Infant and Child Development Programs

Family Matters (Early Learning)

• Attachments and Seperations within an Early Childhood Setting
• Children and Parents Adjust to Separation

Family Resource Programs (Early Learning)

• OEYC Executive Summary

General (Early Learning)

• A Parents Guide to Safety on the Internet
• An Agenda for Action on Childhood Poverty
• Block Parent Program
• Broken pledges on Early Years
• Cost of Early Childhood Development Services
• Early Childhood Education and Care_2004_Ontario
• First Ministers Meeting Comminuque on Early Childhood Development
• Moving Forward On Early Learning And Child Care
• New Federal Investments in Health Renewal and Early Childhood
• Ontario Best Start Action Plan
• Quality in Programming
• Stephen Lewis Inspires Action on Making Children Matter
• The Early Childhood Development Initiative

Quick Links (General) (Early Learning)

• Ontario Women Justice Network

Health & Nutrition (Early Learning)

• Emergency Procedures for Infants and Children

Quick Links (Health) (Early Learning)

• Canadian Institute of Child Health

Literacy (Reading and Writing)/Numeracy (Early Learning)

• Larvae, Ladies and Learning - The Project Approach

Social Skill Development (Early Learning)

• Battling Bullying - A Toolkit for Children with Disabilities
• Creative Discipline in a Chaotic World
• Education for the Future

Special Needs (Early Learning)

• Alternative and Innovative Therapies for Development Disorders Like Autism
• Alternatives to Behaviorism
• Autism and Asperger Syndrome
• Beauty is in the Eye
• CanChild - Centre for Childhood Disability Research
• Cognitive Approaches to Intervention
• Exclusive Use of Discrete Trial Training for Children Diagnosed as Autistic
• Perspectives on Special Needs, 2001 Manual

Theory (Early Learning)

Youth Development

Challenging Behaviour (Youth)

Communication (Youth)

Curriculum (Youth)

Development (Youth)

Diversity (Youth)

Family Matters (Youth)

General (Youth)

Health & Nutrition (Youth)

Literacy (Reading and Writing)/Numeracy (Youth)

Social Skill Development (Youth)

Special Needs (Youth)

Theory (Youth)

 

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Canada

Child Development / Early Learning

Challenging Behaviour (Early Learning)

• Aggressive Behaviour
• Behaviour in Children with Language Disorders

Child Care/Early Learning Centres (Early Learning)

• Early Learning and child care. How does Canada Measure Up?
• A Quality Gap: A study of Non-Profit and Commercial Child Care Centres in Canada (2004)
• Child Care and Daycare Data with Recommendations, 2005
• Child Care - Daycare
• How Caregivers Can Help Children Exposed to traumatic Death
• The Value Of Early Childhood Care Work: A Preliminary Study
• The Wartime Child Care Centres in Canada and Great Britain
• Unionization and Quality in Early Childhood Programs
• What Research says about the Quad Priniciples, 2004

Quick Links (Child Development / Early Learning)

• The Value Of Early Childhood Care Work: A Preliminary Study
• Better Beginnings Better Futures: The Better Beginnings, Better Futures model is designed to prevent young children in low income, high risk neighbourhoods from experiencing poor developmental outcomes, which then require expensive health, education and social services.
• Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
• Child Care Federation
• Childcare Resource and Research Unit: information on early childhood care and education research and policy
• You Bet I Care, .pdf, 2000
• Child Care Exchange
• Childcare Resource and Research Unit (CRRU)
• Early childhood education and care in Canada, 2001 (CRRU)
• Early Learning Canada
• Family
• Harris Centre: offers resources for infant and toddler development.
• Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP)
• Ontario Association for Infant and Child Development: Infant and Child Development Programs provide a range of prevention and early intervention services and supports for such families and infants.
• Ontario Early Years
• The Founders Network: information on research related to the importance of the early years
• Zero to Three: information on the healthy development of infants and toddlers
  
  

Communication (Early Learning)

• Bilingual Acquisition

Curriculum (Early Learning)

• Looking at the Trees around Us

Development (Early Learning)

• A Model for Third Party Monitoring of Early Childhood Development
• Early Childhood Development
• Emotional Growth Through Musical Play
• Enhancing Children’s Ability to Generalize Knowledge
• Guiding Childrens Bahaviour
• Infants Understanding of Pictures and Symbols
• Investing in Children-Ideas for Action
• Partnership and Intervention in Child Abuse Prevention
• Physical Housing Conditions and the Wellbeing of Children
• Strategic Directions - Building on Momentum
• Stretches and Sketches
• The Case for an Early Childhood Development Strategy
• The Early Childhood Development Agreement
• The Use of Categorization for Classification and Reasoning
• Why childcare
• Words Will EVER Hurt Me

Diversity (Early Learning)

• Aboriginal Head Start Urban and Nothern Initiative
• Early Child Development in Vancouver
• Indigenous Early Childhood Development Programs
• Language Minority Children Walk In Two Worlds
• Learning the anti discriminatory way

Family Matters (Early Learning)

• 10 Steps to a Kid Literate Family
• A New Generation of Canadian Families
• Applied Behaviour Analysis Program Helps Mother, Child Rconnect
• Children in Canada in the 1990s

Family Resource Programs(Early Learning)

• Alberta Program Guidelines and Best Practises

General (Early Learning)

• A Canada Fit for Children
• Canadian Child Rights
• Early Childhood Education and Care_2004_Britsh Columbia
• Early Childhood Education and Care_2004_Quebec
• Economics of Early Childhood Development and Care
• Its Time to Act on Child Care

Quick Links (General) (Early Learning)

• Aboriginal Head Start
• Canadian Rights Council
• Social Development Canada
• Canadian Council on Social Development: mission is to develop and promote progressive social policies inspired by social justice, equality and the empowerment of individuals and communities

Health & Nutrition (Early Learning)

• Awareness of the Effects of Alcohol Use During Pregnancy
• Building Toward Breakthroughs in Injury Control
• Childhood Vaccinations-What Every Parent Should Know
• Childrens Safety at the Pool and Playground
• Childrens Safety in the Home
• Early Childhood Health Issues
• Highlights of the Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program
• How Families are Affected by Depression and Manic Depression
• How Tobacco and Alcohol Affect Newborn Children
• Waking States and Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Quick Links (Health) (Early Learning)

• Health Canada
• Canadian Institute of Health Research
• Public Health Agency of Canada
• ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
• Neuropsychological measures of attention and memory function in schizophrenia
• The health workforce crisis in TB control

Literacy (Reading and Writing)/Numeracy (Early Learning)

• New Paths in Early Literacy Teaching and Learning
• Promoting Emergent Literacy and Numeracy
• What Children Are Looking at

Social Skill Development (Early Learning)

• Beginnings and Beyond
• Delayed Life Transitions - Trends and Implications
• Friends for life

Special Needs (Early Learning)

• Anaphylaxis - A Resource Document
• Information Guidebook on Anaphylactic Shock

Theory (Early Learning)

Youth Development

Challenging Behaviour (Youth)

Communication (Youth)

Curriculum (Youth)

Development (Youth)

Diversity (Youth)

Family Matters (Youth)

General (Youth)

Health & Nutrition (Youth)

Literacy (Reading and Writing)/Numeracy (Youth)

Social Skill Development (Youth)

Special Needs (Youth)

Theory (Youth)

 

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International

Child Development / Early Learning

Best Practices (Early Learning)

Quick Links (Best Practices)(Early Learning)

• NAEYC Early Childhood Program Standards and Accreditation Performance Criteria

Challenging Behaviour (Early Learning)

Child Care/Early Learning Centres (Early Learning)

• The trouble with day care

Quick Links (Child Development / Early Learning)

• Child Care Exchange
• Violence Against Women and Children
• The High/Scope Perry School Project Through Age 40
• Child Watch: International Research Network (Monitoring of children's health)
• Clearinghouse on Early Education and Parenting
• Childhoods, 2005, Oslo
• Early Childhood and parent collaborative: home to more than a dozen projects that focus on educating and raising young children
• National Association for the Education of Young Children
• Society for Research on Child Development
• University of Kentucky, World Wide Web Resources, Child Development

Communication (Early Learning)

Curriculum (Early Learning)

• A Time Use Study of Teacher Consultants in Preschool Reform
• An Ideal Early Preschool System
• Changing Curriculum for Early Childhood Education in England
• Children's Words and Photographs
• Circle Time as a Supportive Model of Classroom Discourse
• Comparison in Early Years Education - History, Fact and Fiction
• Computer use in Preschools
• Getting Teachers from Here to There
• Implementing the Project Approach in Part-time Early Childhood Education Programs
• Improving Child Wellbeing-Lessons in Social Policy
• Instant Video Revisiting for Reflection
• Measuring Teachers Perceived Interactions with Children
• Policy Issues in Early Care and Education
• Relationship between Preschool Model and Later School Success
• Seymour Papert’s Vision for Early Childhood Education
• Strategies to Prevent Early School Failure
• Teaching and Learning when No One Is Expert
• The Chicken and Egg Project
• The Food and Restaurant Project
• The Learning Potential of Excursions
• The Llama Project
• The Lunch Project
• The Project Approach - Meeting the State Standards
• The Role of Child Development and Social Interaction in the Selection of Childrens Literature

Development (Early Learning)

• Birth to Three-Supporting our Youngest Children, 2005
• Born to Learn
• Bullies-More Than Sticks, Stones, and Name Calling
• Being Becoming and Relationship: Conceptual Challenges of a Childs Rights Approach in Development
• Childcare and Early Childhood Development Programmes
• Creating Conditions of Success with Early Learning
• Developmental Issues among Triplet Infants
• Development in the First Years of Life
• Early Childhood Care and Development
• Early Childhood Programs in Other Nations
• Economic Policies - How can they Contribute to Child Wellbeing
• Education Matters in the Nurturing of the Beliefs of Preschool Caregivers and Teachers
• Enactments of Developmental Thought in Early Childhood Practice
• Good practice in working with babies
• Making Connections
• Nature loves Nurture
• Playing Games
• Program Planning for Infants and Toddlers
• Start with the arts to encourage confident and enthusiastic learners
• Sticks and Stones and Names Can Hurt You
• Supporting under-threes and their parents in a parent-toddler group
• The Continuity Framework
• The demise of Child Rearing
• The Development of Gender Roles in Young Children
• The Missing Support Infrastructure in Early Childhood
• Three way talk
• Toddlers Facial Expressions - From Fear and Anger to Sadness
• Understanding Bullying
• What Do Children Understand About How Thinking Works
• What Have We Learned--the interplay between nature and nurture

Diversity (Early Learning)

• Can Family Socioeconomic Resources Account for Racial and Ethnic Gaps
• Child Poverty and Cash Transfers
• Childhood Poverty in Rajasthan
• Children and Poverty
• Childrens' Response to Biased Interview Questions
• Children’s Social Behavior in Relation to Participation in Mixed-Age or Same-Age Classrooms
• Cultural Diversity and Early Education
• Development of a Comprehensive Community Assessment of School Readiness
• Discriminant Validity of a Community-Level Measure of Children's Readiness for School
• Donors and Childhood Poverty in Central and East Asia
• Donors and Childhood Poverty
• Examining Multicultural Picture Books for the Early Childhood Classroom
• Gay and Lesbian Issues in Early Childhood Education
• Genetic Differences and School Readiness
• Health Disparities and Gaps in School Readiness
• Impact of Poverty on Children
• Low Birth Weight and School Readiness
• Parent Expectations of Young Children in Taiwan
• Social and economic determinants of disparities in professional help
• Toward an Early Care and Education Agenda for Hispanic Children
• Understanding the Relationships among American Primary-Grade Teachers and Korean Mothers
• Working for equality with children under the age of three

Family Matters (Early Learning)

• Contextual Differences in Parent
• Correlates of Family Routines in Head Start Families
• Cosleeping and Your Baby
• How your lifestyle can be a positive model for your child
• Mother
• Moving On
• Reaching Out to Fathers
• Rigidity in Parent
• The Importance of Father
• Two Parents, Two Gifts

Quick Links (Family Matters)(Early Learning)

• Facts about Kids with Gay Parents

General (Early Learning)

• Assessing the Quality of Early Years Learning Environments
• Improving Child Wellbeing in Developing Countries
• Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers
• Recent Approaches to Understanding Policy and Action for Eradicating Childhood Poverty
• Social funds as instruments for reducing childhood poverty
• The Demographic Context of Childhood Poverty
• Urban Poverty, Childhood Poverty and Social Protection in China
• Whose Poverty Matters--Vulnerability, Social Protection and PRSPs

Quick Links (General) (Early Learning)

• RAND: Various Research Projects related to Children and Youth
• Rutgers University: Centre for Children and Childhood Studies
• Child Trends: A research Organization
• childstats.gov: A forum on Child and Family Statistics (US)
• Princeton/Brookings : The Future of Children
• Kids Count :providing policymakers and citizens with benchmarks of child well-being
• National Children's Study: the effects of environmental influences on the health and development of more than 100,000 children across the United States

Health & Nutrition (Early Learning)

• What are the Early Years
• Child Abuse - The Physician's Role in Alleviating a Growing Problem
• Child Health and Poverty
• Child Ill Health and Mortality– How can we Prevent the Preventable
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Cleaning Up a Toxic Childhood
• Early Childhood Asthma, Australia
• Healthy Baby
• Prevention and Treatment of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Disorders
• Sleep-Wake States and Problems

Quick Links (Health & Nutrition)(Early Learning)

CHEORI Reseach Institute: brings together health professionals from within CHEO to share their efforts in solving paediatric health problems

Literacy (Reading and Writing)/Numeracy (Early Learning)

• Head Start Families Sharing Literature
• How Do Children Tell Us about Their Childhoods
• Moving toward Visual Literacy
• Reading Young Childrens Visual Texts
• Young Children's Spontaneous Participation during Classroom Book Reading

Social Skill Development (Early Learning)

• Attachment Theory
• Infant Attachment Linked to Later Attention Skills
• Raising Trust

Special Needs (Early Learning)

• A Comparison of Treatments for Young Children with Autism
• Autism - Behavioral Approaches to Promoting Play
• Bullying and ADHD
• Identifying and Supporting Children with Very Special Educational Needs
• Partnership with parents of children with special needs
• Responsiveness in interactions of mothers and sons with ADHD

Theory (Early Learning)

Youth Development

Challenging Behaviour (Youth)

Communication (Youth)

Curriculum (Youth)

Development (Youth)

Diversity (Youth)

Family Matters (Youth)

General (Youth)

Health & Nutrition (Youth)

• US Surgeon General Gives Tips to Parents on Teenagers

Literacy (Reading and Writing)/Numeracy (Youth)

Social Skill Development (Youth)

Special Needs (Youth)

Theory (Youth)

• Out-of-school activities and positive youth development

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