Forum on Promoting Children's Cognitive Board on Children Youth and Families Institute Of Medicine
Over the last three decades, researchers have made remarkable progress in creating and testing family-focused programs aimed at fostering the cognitive, affective, and behavioral health of children. These programs include universal interventions, such as those for expecting or new parents, and workshops for families whose children are entering adolescence, as well as programs targeted to especially challenged parents, such as low-income single teens about to have their first babies, or the parents of children with autism. Some family-focused programs have been shown to foster significantly...
Over the last three decades, researchers have made remarkable progress in creating and testing family-focused programs aimed at fostering the cogni...
Forum on Promoting Children's Cognitive Board on Children Youth and Families Institute Of Medicine
Over the past few decades there have been major successes in creating evidence-based interventions to improve the cognitive, affective, and behavioral health of children. Many of these interventions have been put into practice at the local, state, or national level. To reap what has been learned from such implementation, and to explore how new legislation and policies as well as advances in technology and analytical methods can help drive future implementation, the Institute of Medicine-National Research Council Forum on Promoting Children's Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health held...
Over the past few decades there have been major successes in creating evidence-based interventions to improve the cognitive, affective, and behavio...
Forum on Promoting Children's Cognitive Board on Children Youth and Families Division of Behavioral and Social Scie
Children with disabilities and complex medical and educational needs present a special challenge for policy makers and practitioners. These children exhibit tremendous heterogeneity in their conditions and needs, requiring a varied array of services to meet those needs. Uneven public and professional awareness of their conditions and a research base marked by significant gaps have led to programs, practices, and policies that are inconsistent in quality and coverage. Parents often have to navigate and coordinate, largely on their own, a variety of social, medical, and educational support...
Children with disabilities and complex medical and educational needs present a special challenge for policy makers and practitioners. These childre...