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Measuring early child development

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Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development colloquium
Author: 
various
Format: 
Speech
Publication Date: 
28 Apr 2006

Description:

This meeting sets out an opportunity for researchers and policy makers to harness together the global experiences and learnings to date about the application of early years outcome measures and to contribute to a global network that can work together towards comparable measures, application and reporting.

Presentations include:

- Early Child Development - Outcome measures (Dr. Fraser Mustard)
- Is 18 months too early for an Early Development Instrument? (Dr. Richard Tremblay)
- Swedish policies for pre-school children (Dr. Sven Bremberg)
- Seven uses of the EDI: The case of British Columbia (Clyde Hertzman)
- What are the social and economic indicators of nurturing neighbourhoods? (Paul Kershaw, Barry Forer)
- Measuring ECD in Manitoba: Evaluating child-centred public policy at a population level (Dr. Rob Santos)

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