Early Childhood Resources
Learning About How Young Children Learn
Research by Tamar Kushnir sheds light on how young children learn about cause and effect through everyday experiences. [HD Outreach & Extension publication]
Research Sheds Light on How Babies Learn and Develop Language
Research by Marianella Casasola provides a window into how babies learn and develop language skills during the first 2 years of life. Her findings demonstrate that infants are learning about their language well before they speak their language. [HD Outreach & Extension publication]
Discovering Child Language and Cognitive Growth
Results from research by Barbara Lust and colleagues in the Cornell Language Acquisition Lab demonstrate how well equipped children are, beginning at birth, to accomplish the complex task of learning language. [HD Outreach & Extension publication]
The Way She Speaks: Maternal Conversation Style and Children’s Developing Autobiographical Memory and Sense of Self
Research by Qi Wang shows how culture influences the way mothers share memories with their children which in turn influences children's self-concept.[HD Outreach & Extension publication]
Can Home Visiting Increase the Quality of Home-based Child Care
Moncrieff Cochran and Lisa McCabe discuss the child care continuum, opportunities to improve care, and present findings from the first two years of a program evaluation of the Caring for Quality project. [Video, slides & articles]
The Effects of the Physical Environment on Children's Development
Research by Gary Evans shows that the physical environment—noise level, overcrowding, and housing and neighborhood quality—profoundly influences child development including academic achievement, cognitive, social and emotional development as well as parenting behavior. [HD Outreach & Extension article]
Cornell Early Childhood Program (CECP)
www.human.cornell.edu/HD/CECP/index.cfm
CECP integrates applied research with teaching and extension outreach in ways to promote greater understanding of young children and their families as well as policies and practices that enhance child development. Activities focus on early development, care and education of children from low-income families as universal family and community needs; family support in the child care context; integration of strategies; and international exchange and comparison in the early childhood arena.
CECP's on-line resources include fact sheets on finding childcare, research summaries, program reports, conference presentations, links to trusted websites for information on early childhood, and much more.
Parenting in Context
www.parenting.cit.cornell.edu/index.html
The Parenting in Context Initiative in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management focuses on integrating extension and research activities in the area of parenting education.
This project provides a wealth of on-line resources for educators including research briefs on relevant topics, guides for conducting program evaluations, archived webcasts, handouts from Parent Education Inservice trainings, a listing of trusted websites for parenting information, and summaries of research in conjunction with parenting related events at Cornell or in the national news.
Children, Youth, and Families at Risk (CYFAR)
www.csrees.usda.gov/nea/family/cyfar/cyfar.html
The CYFAR Program provides community-based programs for at-risk children and their families through collaboration of the Land-Grant and Cooperative Extension Systems. CYFAR's on-line resources include information on the national CYFAR conference, state and community program data, and extensive publications and program materials available through CYFERnet.
Children, Youth, and Families Education and Research Network (CYFERnet)
www.cyfernet.org/
CYFERnet's website brings together the children, youth and family resources of the public land-grant universities, providing a source of reliable, high quality, research-based publications and program materials.
eXtension Parenting Community of Practice (CoP)
http://www.extension.org/parenting
The Parenting Community of Practice features articles and activities, a resource area, and "Answers from our Experts" sections that may be helpful to parent educators and families. eXtension is an educational partnership of 74 universities in the United States and provides objective, research-based information in an interactive learning environment.