Recently Funded Projects

  • A Study of Child Care Settings in Multiple Communities
    This project will conduct a randomized clinical trial in six Educare schools. It will include longitudinal follow-up of 250 infants and their families through age 3. Measures will include annual child developmental assessments, videotaped parent-child interaction observations, and parent interviews and surveys. The specific aim of the project is to examine the effectiveness of Educare, a model early intervention program for children from low-income families.
  • Temperamental Precursors of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
    This study will utilize data from an ongoing, epidemiologically-derived, prospective longitudinal study to test whether early indices of temperament predict the emergence of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in 1st grade.
  • Georgia Licensing and Monitoring Study
    The purpose of this project is to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of Georgia’s regulatory process for licensing center-based child care programs and family child care homes.