Sharing Web Resources

Some of the outside links for ACEI led me to the Global Child Development Group webpage.  This site provided information about their mission to promote child development for children under the age of 5 in low to middle income countries.  Their overall goal of gathering evidence to influence policy makers of the links between health, nutrition, risk/protective factors, intervention efficacy trials, and effective programs. 

              The most recent newsletter looked at how the emerging skills for preschool to kindergarten age children can lead to leadership abilities in later years and ways in which teachers can recognize these particular skills.  The website presented an informative article on Child Development in Developing Countries with featured six relevant articles. The introduction describes the conceptual framework, nature of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 3, and general analytic plan of articles in this Special Section. The articles describe the situations of children with successive foci on nutrition, parenting, discipline and violence, and the home environment. They address two questions: How do developing and under researched countries in the world vary with respect to these central indicators of children’s development? How do key indicators of national development relate to child development in each of these substantive areas? The Special Section concludes with policy implications from the international findings. 

           This website presented interesting and informative facts about child development on parenting interventions in the Caribbean and how lower educational attainment, adult income and parenting can perpetuate the cycle of poverty.  The article reinforces the research that deduces that early childhood interventions are a critical strategy in breaking the cycle of poverty and promotes equity.  This information reinforces the fact that families living in impoverished areas whether here in the U.S. or other countries experience the same inequities because of socio-economic conditions.














 References:
 Child Development in Developing Countries.(2012). The Society for Research in Child Development.  83(1).  Retrieved from:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cdev.2012.83.issue-1/issuetoc