Early Head Start Program Leads To Better Language/Social Skills
OPEN MINDS, The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst
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After a year or more of enrolling in an Early Head Start (EHS) program, 2-year-olds perform significantly better on a range of measures of cognitive, language, and social-emotional development, when compared with a randomly assigned control group. This was one finding of a June 2001 report called, Building Their Futures: How Early Head Start Programs Are Enhancing the Lives of Infants and Toddlers in Low-Income Families. The report was done by Mathematica Policy Research Inc . . .