Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Contributors
- PART ONE INTRODUCTION
- 1 Early Childhood Intervention: A Continuing Evolution
- PART TWO CONCEPTS OF DEVELOPMENTAL VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE
- PART THREE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS FOR INTERVENTION
- PART FOUR APPROACHES TO ASSESSMENT
- PART FIVE SERVICE DELIVERY MODELS AND SYSTEMS
- PART SIX MEASURING THE IMPACT OF SERVICE DELIVERY
- PART SEVEN NEW DIRECTIONS FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
- Name Index
- Subject Index
1 - Early Childhood Intervention: A Continuing Evolution
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Contributors
- PART ONE INTRODUCTION
- 1 Early Childhood Intervention: A Continuing Evolution
- PART TWO CONCEPTS OF DEVELOPMENTAL VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE
- PART THREE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS FOR INTERVENTION
- PART FOUR APPROACHES TO ASSESSMENT
- PART FIVE SERVICE DELIVERY MODELS AND SYSTEMS
- PART SIX MEASURING THE IMPACT OF SERVICE DELIVERY
- PART SEVEN NEW DIRECTIONS FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
- Name Index
- Subject Index
Summary
Children are the touchstone of a healthy and sustainable society. How a culture or society treats its youngest members has a significant influence on how it will grow, prosper, and be viewed by others. In the words of the Carnegie Corporation's 1996 report, entitled Starting Points: Meeting the Needs of Our Youngest Children, it is these children
whose boundless energy is matched only by their curiosity and creativity, whose agility is the envy of their parents and teachers, [and] whose openness and expressiveness are always remarkable and occasionally breathtaking. Watching them, it is easy to believe that they can do anything they want to do, be anyone they want to be; it is easy to summon the optimism that yet a new generation is rising to fuel this nation's historical belief in endless possibility. (p. 3)
Nevertheless, not all children are born healthy; not all children have access to good nutrition, adequate health care, and acceptable housing; not all children are raised by parents who can comfort, nurture, and challenge them appropriately; and not all children are born free of disabilities or other biological vulnerabilities. It is the mission of early childhood intervention to help young children and their families to thrive. The fundamental challenge that faces early intervention services is to merge the knowledge and insights of scholars and practitioners with the creative talents of those who design and implement social policy initiatives and to invest the products of this alliance in the future of our children and thereby in the well-being of our society as a whole.
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- Handbook of Early Childhood Intervention , pp. 3 - 32Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000
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