| SPECIAL SESSIONS |
| Opening Session-Professor Sir Michael L. Rutter |
| Luncheon I-Stephen J. Suomi |
| Luncheon Il-Valeria 0. Lovelace |
| Student-Mentor Lunch |
| Mentor Awards |
| Graduate Student Head Start Research Grantee Posters |
| Plenary I |
| Neuroscience Perspectives on Brain Development |
| Focusing on Language and Emotional Experience |
| Plenary II |
| The Importance of Context for Good Science: |
| Studying Children and Families Across Settings |
| Plenary III |
| Successful Interventions That Support DevelopmentalTransitions |
| Closing Session-Edward Zigler |
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| SYMPOSIA |
| Head Start Research and Practice |
| Poster Symposium -Child and Family Mental Health:
Practice and Research in Five Early Head Start Programs |
| Poster Symposium -Findings From ACYF/Head Start-University
Partnership Grants: 1996 Cohort |
| A Discussion of Contemporary Issues in Head Start
Research and Evaluation: Comparative Perspectives |
| Problems and Possibilities of Assessing Cognitive
Outcomes in Head Start |
| Conversations with Edward Zigler, Grover Whitehurst
Richard Gonzales, and Sarah M. Green-Advisory Committee on Head
Start Research and Evaluation |
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| ACYF Research, Demonstration, and Evaluation
Branch |
| Dimensions of Program Quality That Foster Child
Development: |
| Reports From Five Years of the Head Start Quality
Research Centers |
| Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey
(FACES) |
| Results From the National Evaluation of the Head
Stan Transition Demonstration |
| Recent Findings From the Head Start Mental Health
Research Consortium |
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| Child Development, Education, and Care |
| Impact of School Quality on Children's Success |
| The Impact of Gender on Learning and Achievement |
| The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study: Design
and Early Findings |
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| Consequences of Welfare Reform |
| The Effects of Welfare and Employment Policies
on the Development of Children in Low-Income Families |
| Exploring Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform
and Early Childhood Intervention |
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| Culture and Context |
| Conversations with Edward Zigler; Professor Sir
Michael Rutter, and John Hagen-How Can We Know Environment Matters
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| Contextual Effects and Developmental Competencies
in African American Children and Young Adults |
| Culture: What Is It? Who Got It? Why Does It Matter?
Implications for Research and Practice With Children and Families |
| Cultural Perspectives on Home/School Continuity
Neighborhood and Community Influences on Child and Family Development |
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| Health |
| Health Status Among Former Head Start Children
and Its Effect on School Achievement A Look at Interactions and
Outcomes on a Local and National Level |
| Early Findings From the Healthy Steps for Young
Children Program |
| Child Safety: Teaching While We Care |
| The Impact of Culture on Health Beliefs and Behavior |
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| Innovative Research Methods |
| New and Interesting Data Analytic Techniques |
| Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
to Research on Early Childhood |
| Conversations with Cynthia Garcia CoIl, Gloria
Johnson-Powell, Spero Manson, and Suzanne Randolph-The Importance
of Context for Good Science |
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| Language and Family Literacy |
| Continuities and Discontinuities in the Assessment
of Young Bilingual Children: Lessons Learned and Future Directions
for Research |
| The Social Context of Early Language Development
for Children in Poverty |
| Acquiring Reading Proficiency |
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| Parental Influences on Child Development |
| Children of Alcoholics: Challenges for Birth to
Five Child Development Programs |
| The Effects of Parenting and Maternal Depression
on Children's Social Competence |
| Mental Health lssues in Diverse Populations |
| Expert" Advice on Growing Up Healthy: Creating
Parent Guides to Child Development |
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| Parents and Social Institutions |
| Starting Early Starting Smart: A Comparison of
Head Start Families' Transitions From Behavioral Health Services
Need to Services Use |
| The Transition to School: Local Perspectives and
Solutions |
| Bringing Everyone to the Table: Strategies to Support
Home/School/Community Partnerships |
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| Research and Policy |
| Head Start Research Initiated by State Associations
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| The Need for Policy-Driven Research in an Era of
Program Accountability |
| Disseminating Early Childhood Research to Local
and State Decision Makers |
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| Very Early Development |
| Parent-Child Relationships: Cutting-Edge Research
on Attachment and Communication in Parent-Child Interaction |
| Conversations With Kathryn Barnard, Patricia KuhI,
and Alan Schore-Brain Development |
| Getting Started in Early Intervention for Infants
and Toddlers with Disabilities |
| Poster Symposium -Early Head Start |
| Fathers and Early Child Development: Lessons Learned
From Fathers' Stories |
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| POSTERS |
| Biobehavioral Approaches to Development |
| Child and Family Strengths and Resiliency |
| Children With Disabilities |
| Cultural Continuities and Discontinuities |
| Early Intervention and Child Care Programs
and Practices |
| Evaluation Methods |
| Family Involvement in Children's Education |
| Family Literacy |
| Family Structure and Functioning |
| Health and Nutrition |
| Home/School Continuities and Discontinuities |
| Home Visiting |
| Infants and Toddlers |
| Information Technology |
| Instrument Development and Validation |
| Language and Emergent Literacy |
| Long Term Effects of Early Intervention |
| Maternal Mental Health |
| Parenting/Parent Attitudes |
| Promoting Mental Health |
| Quality of Early Care and Education |
| Research Partnerships With Communities |
| School Readiness |
| School Transitions |
| Social/Emotional Development |
| Staff Development |
| Understanding Neighborhood and Community
Influences |
| Welfare Reform and Impact on Children and
Families |
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| APPENDICES |
| Appendix A: Cooperating Organizations
and Program Committee |
| Appendix B: Peer Reviewers |
| Appendix C: Subject Index |
| Appendix D: Directory
of Participants |
