Enhancing early child care quality and learning for toddlers at risk: The responsive early childhood program

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 526-541

  Landry, Susan H ^a   Zucker, Tricia A ^a   Taylor, Heather B ^a   Swank, Paul R ^a   Williams, Jeffrey M ^a   Assel, Michael ^a   Crawford, April ^a   Huang, Weihua ^a   Clancy Menchetti, Jeanine ^b   Lonigan, Christopher J ^b   Phillips, Beth M ^c   Eisenberg, Nancy ^d   Spinrad, Tracy L ^d   De Villiers, Jill ^e   De Villiers, Peter ^e   Barnes, Marcia ^a   Starkey, Prentice ^f   Klein, Alice ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^f WestEd   (United States)

Author keywords

Child care; Early intervention; School readiness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD CARE; CURRICULUM; EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGRAM EVALUATION; READING; STANDARD; TEACHING;

CHILD CARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CURRICULUM; EARLY INTERVENTION (EDUCATION); FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; POVERTY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; READING; TEACHING;

EID: 84893651257     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0033494     Document Type: Article

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