The UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda, by contrast to the Millennium
Development Goals, provides a global policy framework to address the quality of life of …

Home visiting programmes are increasingly recognized as one of the most effective
interventions to improve child health and development in low-income settings. However, the …

Background Many children in low-and middle-income countries fail to reach their cognitive
potential, with experiences before age 3 critical in shaping long-term development …

A socio-neurocognitive approach to augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)
shows several underlying domains of communicative competence: Attention, perception …

Background There is a great need in low-and middle-income countries for sound qualitative
and monitoring tools assessing early childhood development outcomes. Although there are …

The Caregiver Reported Early Development Instruments (CREDI) are assessments tools for
measuring the development of children under age three in global contexts. The present …

The primary objective of the ROC study is to assess the impact of social and environmental
factors on early childhood development in the modern urban low-income setting of Sao …

Inclusion of early child development in the United Nations Sustainable Development
Agenda raises issues of how this goal should be monitored, particularly in low resource …

Caregiver education and home stimulation have shown positive associations with children's
developmental outcomes in early childhood in high-income “Minority World” countries, and …

Reflecting a burgeoning political interest in supporting young children around the world,
global demand for reliable, valid, and scalable assessments of early childhood development …