The Abecedarian Approach to Social, Educational, and Health Disparities
| Autor: | Craig T. Ramey |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Early childhood education
Adult Adolescent Population Mothers Academic achievement Education Developmental psychology Treatment and control groups Prevention science Young Adult Outcome Assessment Health Care Developmental and Educational Psychology Early Intervention Educational Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Cognitive Dysfunction Early childhood Longitudinal Studies education Child education.field_of_study Socioemotional selectivity theory 05 social sciences 050301 education Infant Health Status Disparities Middle Aged Health equity Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Child Preschool Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Psychology 0503 education 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | Clinical child and family psychology review. 21(4) |
| ISSN: | 1573-2827 |
| Popis: | This paper places the Abecedarian Approach in theoretical and historical context and reviews the results from three randomized controlled trials that have tested an experimental protocol designed to prevent cognitive disabilities and their social consequences. Results affirm that cognitive disabilities can be prevented in early childhood and subsequent academic achievement enhanced via a multipronged comprehensive approach that contains individualized and responsive early childhood education starting in early infancy, coupled with pediatric health care, good nutrition, and family-oriented social services. Additional important findings reveal that the most vulnerable children benefited the most and that cognitive gains were not at the expense of children's socioemotional development or relationship to family. In general, mothers derived benefits in education and employment and teenage mothers especially benefited from their children participating in the early education treatment group. On the whole, the overall pattern of results supports a multidisciplinary, individualized, and long-term longitudinal perspective on human development and prevention science. Recent structural and functional brain imaging in the fifth decade of life shows persistent effects of intensive early educational treatment. Independent recent cost-benefit analysis in adulthood reveals a 7.3:1 return on investment with a 13.7% average annual rate of return. The paper concludes with a discussion of implications of the Abecedarian Approach to today's high-risk population in the USA. |
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