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A radio show : The Kojo Nnamdi show on Thursday August 23, 2007 was on Babies and Media. Dr. Rachel Barr was one of the invited experts.
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Binghamton Babylab: We conduct studies in collaboration with SUNY Binghamton. This site describes their work.
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Children's Medical Center: The Children's medical center Web site provides a wealth of information about services for children in the DC metro area. The link will bring you to a search page where you can search for a specific developmental issue.
For general information about the Center for Neuroscience and Behavioral Medicine, please call 202-884-5960. For information and appointments for the Attention, learning, and hyperactivitiy problems center please call 571-226-8393
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Connect for Kids: This Web site covers more than 30 topics ranging from arts and youth development, out-of-school time and the early years to foster care, welfare reform and oral health. It annotates and links out to over 1,000 other sites and to 1,500 service and advocacy organizations. It offers 51 state pages (including the District of Columbia) that link visitors to resources at the state and local level. Be sure to check out the article entitled "Tuned-in Toddlers," which discusses television and infants!
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Developmental Changes in Imitation: This is an article published in the journal Child Development of prior research conducted on infant learning from television.
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Educational TV: 30 Years of Sesame Street Research: This article succintly discusses the research findings documenting Sesame Street's impact on measures of school-readiness, long-term benefits, and social impact in children.
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Findings from SRCD: Childcare: Our recent findings on the role of media in childcare settings presented at the Society for Research on Child Development in Boston, MA 2007
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Findings from SRCD: Touchsreen study: Our recent findings on a new touchscreen study were presented at the Society for Research in Child Development in Boston, MA, March 2007
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Findings from SRCD:Learning from computers: Learning from Computers was presented at the Society for Research on Child Development
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GU Research News Issue: The Early Learning Project is featured on the Georgetown University Website. There is a brief video describing our current findings.
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Hoya Article: This article, printed in Georgetown's student newspaper The Hoya, talks about the Early Learning Program's research in the context of other research activities on campus.
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Learn and Grow: Making the Most of Screen Time: What is media literacy, and how do children develop it?
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Multimedia babies good news bad news: A summary of a recent NIH media conference on findings of studies conducted on infants and toddlers and the media (including studies from the ELP).
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NIH Health Information Site: Comprehensive and factual site about many aspects of child development. Also available in Spanish.
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Online research updates: This site provides an online research update that includes brief summaries of current research in child development from infants to teens.
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TV Gets High Ratings: This article published in Psychology Today highlights the results of previous studies of 12-, 15- and 18-month-olds, which examined what infants pick up from television.
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Washington Post Article: "Tuning In to a Problem: A Worried Mom Pursues the Facts About What TV Does to Its Youngest Viewers," by Lisa Guernsey
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Zero to Three : "Zero to Three" is a leading magazine for early childhood development professionals. This Web site provides information for parents about everyday issues of parenting.
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