The members and affiliates of the Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being are at the forefront of innovative research and practice in the early childhood field. The publications compiled below offer various ideas, theories and methods related to early childhood.

2022

Institute Affiliate: Ruth Paris

Stephen L. Buka, Lee S. Beers, Matthew G. Biel, Nathaniel Z. Counts, James Hudziak, Stephanie H. Parade, Ruth Paris, Ronald Seifer, Stacy S. Drury (2022). The Family is the Patient: Promoting Early Childhood Mental Health in Pediatric Care. Pediatrics May 2022; 149 (Supplement 5): e2021053509L. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2021-053509L

Institute Affiliate: Dina Castro

Castro, D. C. & Meek, S. (2022). Beyond Castañeda and the “language barrier” ideology: Young children and their right to bilingualism. Language Policy. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-021-09608-x

Institute Affiliate: Dina Castro

Lee, E.*, Subramaniam, K., Castro, D. C. (2022). Early childhood pre-service teachers’ descriptions of equity in science education: A thematic analysis. Early Childhood Education Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-022-01318-1

Institute Affiliate: Emily Feinberg

Declercq E, Feinberg E, Belanoff C. Racial inequities in the course of treating perinatal mental health challenges: Results from listening to mothers in California. Birth. 2022;49:132–140. https://doi.org/10.1111/birt.12584

2020-2021

Institute Affiliate: Dina Castro

Castro, D. C. & Artiles, A. J. (Eds.) (2021). Language, Learning and Disability in the Education of Young Bilingual Children. Washington, D.C.: Center for Applied Linguistics. Multilingual Matters Publishing.

  • Equitable learning opportunities for young bilingual children: Strategies to promote oral language development

Institute Affiliate: Dina Castro

Castro, D. C., & Franco, X. (2021). Equitable learning opportunities for young bilingual children: Strategies to promote oral language development. In I. Alanis & I. Iruka (Eds.), Advancing Equity in Early Childhood Education (pp. 73-77). Washington, D.C.: National Association for the Education of Young Children.

 

Published in: Maternal and Child Health Journal 

Institute Affiliate: Ruth Paris

Paris, R. & Herriott, A., Hacking, S., Maru, M. & Sommer, A. (2020). Secrecy versus disclosure: Women with substance use disorders share experiences in help seeking during pregnancy. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 24, 1396–1403. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-020-03006-1

Published in: Social Work

Institute Affiliate: Ruth Paris

Walsh, T., Paris, R., Ribaudo, J. & Gilkerson, L. (2021) Locating infant and early childhood mental health at the heart of social work. Social Work, 66(3), 187-196. https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/swab022

Published in: Journal of Child and Family Studies

Institute Affiliate: Amanda Tarullo

Kao, K., Tuladhar, C., & Tarullo, A. (2020). Parental and family-level sociocontextual correlates of emergent emotion regulation: Implications for early social competence. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 29, 1630-1641. doi: 10.1007/s10826-020-01706-4.

Published in: Development and Psychopathology

Institute Affiliate: Amanda Tarullo

Tarulllo, A., Tuladhar, C.,* Kao, K., Drury, E.,** & Meyer, J. (2020). Cortisol and socioeconomic status in early childhood: A multi-dimensional assessment. Development and Psychopathology, 32, 1876-1887.

Published in: Journal of Family Issues

Institute Affiliate: Ruth Paris

DeVoe, E. R., Ross, A. M., Spencer, R., Drew, A., Acker, M., Paris, R., & Jacoby, V. (2020). Coparenting across the deployment cycle: Observations from military families with young children. Journal of Family Issues, 41(9), 1447-1469. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X19894366.

2010-2019

Published in: Journal of Family Psychology

Institute Affiliate: Amanda Tarullo

St. John, A., Kibbe, M., & Tarullo, A. (2019). A systematic assessment of socioeconomic status and executive functioning in early childhood. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 178, 352-368. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2018.09.003.

Published in: Early Education and Development

Institute Affiliate: Stephanie Curenton

Curenton, S.M., Iruka, I.U., Humphries, M., Jensen, M., Durden, T., Rochester, S.E., Sims, J., Whittaker, J., & Kinzie, M. (2019). Validity for the Assessing Classroom Sociocultural Equity Scale (ACSES) in Early Childhood Classrooms. Early Education and Development.

  • Early childhood education for bilingual children and the road to multilingualismInstitute Affiliate: Dina CastroCastro, D. C. & Pryshker, N. (2019). Early childhood education for bilingual children and the road to multilingualism. Handbook of Early Childhood Care and Education. Wiley Blackwell Publishing.

Published in: Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Institute Affiliate: Stephanie Curenton

Curenton, S. M., Sims, J., Rochester, S.E., & Gardner, S. L. (2019). The Conversation Compass Communication Screener-Revised. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 47, 182-193.

Published in: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Institute Affiliate: Amanda Tarullo

St. John, A., Finch, K., & Tarullo, A. (2019). Socioeconomic status and neural processing of a go/no-go task in preschoolers: An assessment of the P3b. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 38, 100677. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100677.

Published in:  PLOS Medicine

Institute Affiliate: Peter Rockers

Rockers PC, Zanolini A, Banda B, Chipili MM, Hughes RC, Hamer DH, Fink G. Two-year impact of community-based health screening and parenting groups on child development in Zambia: follow-up to a cluster-randomized controlled trial. PLoS Medicine, 2018; 15, e1002555.

Published in: Journal of Family Issues

Institute Affiliate: Stephanie Curenton

Curenton, S. M., Crowley, J. E., & Mouzon, D. M. (2018). Qualitative Descriptions of Middle-Class, African American Mothers’ Child-Rearing Practices and Values. Journal of Family Issues, 39(4), 868–895.

    Published in: Health Economics

    Institute Affiliate: Peter Rockers

    Fink G, Rockers PC. Financial incentives, targeting, and utilization of child health services: experimental evidence from Zambia. Health Economics, 2017; 26: 1307-21.

    Published in: Early Education and Development

    Institute Affiliate: Stephanie Curenton

    Schilder, D. E., Broadstone, M., & Curenton, S. M. (2017). Special Issue: Early Care and Education Collaboration. Early Education and Development, 28:8, 1072-1074.

    Published in: The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

    Institute Affiliate: Peter Rockers

    Fink G, Levenson R, Tembo S, Rockers PC. Home- and community-based growth monitoring to reduce early life growth faltering: an open-label cluster-randomized trial. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2017; 106: 1070-7.

    Published in: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

    Institute Affiliate: Amanda Tarullo

    Tarullo, A., Obradovic, J., Keehn, B., Rasheed, M., Siyal, S., Nelson, C. A., & Yousafzai, A. (2017). Gamma power in rural Pakistani children: Links to executive function and verbal abilities. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 26, 1-8. doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2017.03.007.

    Published in: BMJ Global Health

    Institute Affiliate: Peter Rockers

    Rockers PC, Fink G, Zanolini A, Banda B, Biemba G, Sullivan C, Mutembo S, Silavwe V, Hamer D. Impact of a community-based package of interventions on child development in Zambia: a cluster-randomised controlled trial. BMJ Global Health, 2016; 1: e000104.

    • How Changes in Home and Neighborhood Environment Factors Are Related to Change in Black Children’s Academic and Social Development from Kindergarten to Third Grade

    Published in: The Journal of Negro Education

    Institute Affiliate: Stephanie Curenton

    Iruka, I., Curenton, S. M., & Gardner, S. (2016). How changes in home and neighborhood factors are related to change in Black children’s academic and social development from kindergarten to third grade. Journal of Negro Education, 84, 282–297.

    Published in: The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

    Institute Affiliate: Peter Rockers

    Fink G, Rockers PC. Childhood growth, schooling, and cognitive development: further evidence from the Young Lives study. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2014; 100: 182-8.