Factors such as socioeconomic status, geographic location, and disability, can lead to significant gaps in learning outcomes. To address this, research around disparities in education and learning must occur. A primary mission of FPG is to generate knowledge to establish programs that produce positive outcomes for children and their families, and use that knowledge to prepare caregivers and teachers to provide the best possible learning environments for promoting development and success. As such, FPG is dedicated to investigating and addressing disparities in education and learning and establishing programs to positively impact academic achievement. The research, evaluation, and interventions developed within FPG serve learners and teachers throughout our state, across the country, and around the world.
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Spoken language is predictive of many positive life outcomes, such as employment, social interaction, play skills and more. But, researchers still don’t know why some children talk and others don’t, especially as it relates to historically marginalized and minoritized populations.
The EMERGE study seeks to change that. Researchers at FPG will co-lead a unique project to assess behavioral and neurological markers of language development in low-income children within their family settings, gathering valuable information that could lead to earlier, more targeted interventions for a population that has been largely underrepresented in autism research.
Featured FPG News Story
Research has demonstrated that early learning experiences are critical for children’s long-term success, as their brains develop most rapidly in the first three years of life. Therefore, it is imperative to ensure that practices aimed at improving children’s early literacy skills provide equitable experiences for racially and linguistically diverse young children and their families.
Book Babies, an early-literacy home visiting program, was developed to strengthen literacy promoting practices of families’ and children’s early literacy skills. To determine the efficacy of this program and whether its impacts vary by families’ language status, a team of scholars from FPG and HighScope evaluated the program.
