Development and Learning
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Expanding Child Tax Credit
This expansion essentially provides a guaranteed income for families with children, a proposal that seemed improbable in the US, especially after the government’s former cash assistance program
Categories: Development and Learning, Policy
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Early Childhood Learning – Brain Science and the Effects of Stress and Trauma
For a developing child, the value of family-centered care and the impacts of trauma on childhood learning are linked.
Categories: Development and Learning, Early Childhood
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Applying Brain Science and the Effects of Stress and Trauma on the Practice of Speech and Language Pathology
Because stress and trauma can hinder a child’s development, the child may not communicate their wants and needs effectively.
Categories: Development and Learning, Early Childhood, Intervention
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Positive Relationships in Response to Stress Help to Promote Healthy Development
Toxic stress situations affect negatively healthy development because the lack of positive relationships
Categories: Development and Learning, Early Childhood
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The Parenting Support Program (PSP) and COVID 19: The Home Visitors Perspective
As a home visitor who typically meets the parents in natural environments, finding new ways to communicate was perhaps the greatest challenge.
Categories: Development and Learning, Disability, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Intervention
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The Parenting Support Program (PSP) and COVID 19: Programmatic Perspective
The Parenting Support Program (PSP) is a home visiting program intended to meet the unique educational and support needs of pregnant/parenting adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities with children up to kindergarten or 5 years of age.
Categories: Development and Learning, Disability, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Policy
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The Impact of COVID-19 School Closures on Children with Disabilities
When Georgetown University announced that all classes would move to remote, online methodologies on March 13, it felt as if the world was ending for most of us Hoyas.
Categories: Development and Learning, Disability
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Innovation Showcase
The Administration on Children and Families, Office of Early Childhood Development sponsored the 2020 Showcase on Innovation in Early Childhood Development and Learning at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington DC.
Categories: Development and Learning, Disability, Early Childhood, Intervention
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Universal Design for Learning: The Case for UDL Lesson on Knowledge Production around 9/11
UDL is a framework that “guides the shift from designing learning environments and lessons with potential barriers to designing barrier-free, instructionally rich learning environments and lessons that provide access to all students.”
Categories: Development and Learning, Disability, International, Intervention
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Ready or Not? Early Childhood Teachers and Children with Disabilities
As an Early Childhood Teacher in my native Turkey and here in the United States, I did not feel I had enough knowledge about working with infants, toddlers, and young children with disabilities to include them in programming or be an effective teacher.
Categories: Development and Learning, Disability, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Early Childhood