Listed below are a selection of research findings and expert testimonies on early childhood brain development. 10/04

WEBSITES FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• http://ilabs.washington.edu/news/scientist_in_the_crib.html - The Scientist in the Crib: An Excerpt. What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind. By Alison Gopnik, Ph.D., Andrew N. Meltzoff, Ph.D., Patricia K. Kuhl, Ph.D.
• www.gottman.com - The Gottman Institute
• www.ilabs.washington.edu - Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington.
• www.k12.wa.us - Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction. On-line Grade level Resources
• www.brainconnection.com - a web resource from Scientific Learning.
• www.fcs.uga.edu/outreach/coopex/bbb/ - "What You Need to Know" link for research on brain development.
• www.talaris.org - Talaris Research Institute; Advancing knowledge of early brain development.
• www.nccic.org/poptopics/brain.html - National Child Care Information Center: Information Products. Resources on Brain Development Research.
• www.naeyc.org - National Association for the Education of Young Children.
• www.zerotothree.org.org/brainwonders/index.html - Offers information to parents, child care providers, and pediatric and family clinicians about how the brain develops, within the context of relationships, from conception through age 3.
• www.fpg.unc.edu - Abecedarian Study in North Carolina tracked young impoverished children who had the advantage of early development program and compared them with their peers who did not.
• www.highscope.org - Perry Preschool Project in Michigan - The latest findings of the High/Scope Perry Preschool Study.
• www.TeachingStrategies.com - Building Your Baby's Brain: a Parents' Guide to the First Five Years.