Head Start's 6th National Research Conference: The First Eight Years: Pathways to the Future
| SPECIAL SESSIONS |
| Opening Session-James J. Heckman, Ann Crittenden |
| Plenary I |
| Promoting Young Children's Eagerness to Learn in Educational Settings |
| Plenary II |
| Self-Regulation: The Interplay of Cognitive, Biologic, and Emotional Domains |
| Plenary III |
| Policies and Programs That Support Families With Children From Birth to Three |
| Luncheon I-Windy M. Hill |
| Student-Mentor Luncheon |
| Mentor Awards |
| Luncheon IlI-Mona Lee Locke |
| SYMPOSIA/ROUNDTABLES/CONVERSTION HOURS |
| Administration for Children and Families |
| Improving the Performance of the Head Start Program: Findings From FACES 2000 |
| A Tapestry of Head Start Families: Challenges They Face and Strengths They Possess Findings From the Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) |
| Poster Symposium --Head Start Quality Research
Centers: Interventions to Promote School Readiness for Head Start Children |
| Findings from Head Start Mental Health Research Consortium |
| Early Head Start: National Evaluation Early Head Start: Program Impacts on 3-Year-Old Children and Their Families |
| Early Head Start: Local Research |
| The Early Head Start Research Consortium's Poster on Mediators and Moderators of Local Early Head Start Outcomes |
| Does Head Start Work? Overview and Update on the New Head Start Impact Study |
| Other Federal Presentation |
| New Research-Based Federal Initiatives |
| Children's Early Learning and Education Experiences: The Early Childhood Longitudinal Studies |
| Child Development |
| The First Three Years of Life: What is Known and Where Is Research Needed |
| Innovations in the Study of Self-Regulation: New Methods, Ecologically Valid Contexts, and Diverse Populations |
| Bringing the Study of Emotion to the Head Start Classroom: Methodological Approaches, Clinical Applications, and Research Partnerships |
| The Beginnings of Prosocial Behavior |
| Children With Special Needs and Disabilities |
| Master Lecture-Early Assessment and Treatment for Young Children With Autistic Spectrum Disorders |
| The Multimodal Treatment of ADHD: An Overview of the NIMH Study Welfare Reform and Early Childhood Intervention |
| Ethnic Psychopharmacology: Focus on Young Children |
| What's Happening With Children With Disabilities and Their Families in Early Head Start? |
| Including Children With Special Needs and Their Families: Research, Practice, and Challenges |
| Consequences of Welfare Reform |
| Welfare Reform and Its Impact on Families |
| The Use of Head Start for Families in Experimental Welfare And Antipoverty Policies and Effects on Child Well-Being |
| Conversation With the Masters |
| Master Lecture-History of Research and Practice in Head Start |
| Conversation With Ann Bardwell, Barbara Bowman, Ross Thompson, Susan H. Landry, and Ron Herndon-Facilitating Young Children's Enthusiasm for Learning |
| Conversation With Julius B. Richmond, Edward Zigler, Judith Palfrey, and John Pascoe |
| Conversation With John W. Hagen, Claire B. Kopp, and Sybil Carrére-The Emergence of Self-Regulation |
| Early Childhood Assessment and Outcomes |
| Cross-Cultural Issues in Assessment and Accountability |
| Policy Issues Concerning Child Outcomes in Head Start |
| Language, Literacy, and Early Learning |
| Literacy, Language, and Cognition |
| Teaching Mathematics to Head Start Children: Developmental Approaches |
| Impacting Policy Through Research-Based Emerging Language and Literacy Practices: A Model Program Leads to Policy Changes on State and National Levels |
| Starting Strong: Understanding and Promoting Math Development in Young Children |
| Literacy for Preschoolers When Learning to Read Is Vital |
| Parental/Families |
| The Important Role of Fathers in Young Children's Development |
| Fathers and Early Head Start: Methodological Issues in Research and Implications for Program Involvement |
| Promoting Family Relations |
| Children of Incarcerated Parents |
| Perspectives From Providers of Services to Families and Their Children Experiencing Domestic Violence |
| Assessment of Parental Emotional Availability: Ramifications for Children |
| Depression in Mothers in Low-Income Families: Implications for Children |
| Quality Health Care |
| Providing High Quality About Home Visiting: What Happens? |
| Child Health Advice: Past and Present |
| What Choices Are Available to Parents for Child Care and Education Services |
| Student Programming |
| Challenges and Commitments: The Role of the Mentoring Relationship in Developing Junior Scholars |
| Workshop-Statistics and Common Sense: A Quantitative "Head Start" for Researchers and Practitioners |
| Miscellaneous |
| Creating Integrated Early Childhood Learning Programs |
| Successful Transitions to School: Factors That Dramatically Increase the Success of Former Head Start Children in Kindergarten Through Third Grade |
| Poster Symposium - Issues in Partnering with Communities to Improve the Lives of Young Children and Their Families |
| Improving the Quality of the Workforce Through Professional Development |
| Meeting the Challenge and Opportunity of Diversity |
| Effective and Strategic Communication of Research to the Media |
| POSTERS |
| Head Start Graduate Student Research Grantees |
| Action Research |
| Assessment/Diagnosis |
| Behavioral Issues of Early Childhood |
| Child Care |
| Community Resources |
| Disabilities |
| Early Education/Family Support |
| ESL/Bilingual Issues |
| Family Functioning/Systems |
| Fatherhood |
| Home Visiting |
| Infant/Toddler |
| Language Development/Early Literacy |
| Maternal Mental Health |
| Mental Health: Interventions and Services |
| Methods/Measures/Instrument Development |
| Native American |
| Normal Child Development |
| Parent Involvement in Children's Education |
| Parenting Styles/Values/Attitudes/Behaviors |
| Partnerships |
| Physical Health and Development |
| School Achievement/Academic Success |
| Social/Emotional Development |
| Staff Beliefs/Attitudes and Professional Training & Development |
| APPENDICES |
| Appendix A: Cooperating Organizations and Program Committee |
| Appendix B: Peer Reviewers |
| Appendix C: Subject Index |
| Appendix D: Directory of Participants |