A group from KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (shown here), the largest medical facility in Singapore, visited FPG recently to work with FPG scientist Christina M. Kasprzak and technical assistance specialist Kathi Gillaspy on the Early Childhood Outcomes Center, which is now part of FPG’s Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center.

The ECO Center helps to improve state early intervention and early childhood special education service systems, increase the implementation of effective practices, and enhance the outcomes of these programs for young children and their families.

The Singapore hospital's representatives also met with FPG director Samuel L. Odom and several other researchers, including the Abecedarian Project’s principal investigator, Frances A. Campbell, senior scientists Barbara Davis Goldman, Virginia M. Buysse, Pamela J. Winton, and Karen A. Blase, as well as the Targeted Reading Intervention Project’s Mary E. Bratsch-Hines, the Family Life Project’s Patricia T. Garrett-Peters, and CONNECT’s Chih-Ing Lim, who was a preschool officer at the Ministry of Education in Singapore before she moved to the United States.

FPG and the hospital are developing a Memorandum of Agreement to promote new collaboration.

This story is from the new issue of Early Developments.

Photograph of the hospital courtesy of a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.