Quality of Center Child Care and Infant Cognitive and Language Development

Child Development

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 606-620

  Burchinal, Margaret R ^a,b   Roberts, Joanne E ^a,c   Nabors, Laura A ^a   Bryant, Donna M ^a   Burchinal, Peg ^c  

^a Frank Porter Graham Child Devmt C ^*

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; DAY CARE; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POVERTY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030118632     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1996.tb01754.x     Document Type: Article

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