Publications
Here you’ll find downloadable, research-based publications on preschool, early intervention and early childhood special education (EI/ECSE), home visiting, children’s health, and other issues and topics related to young children’s healthy development and academic success.
Room to Grow
Communities across Oregon are grappling with an inadequate supply of early childhood facilities. Meanwhile, experts have led the way to a better understanding of how the design of a facility influences a child's development - positively or negatively depending on...
Oregon’s Starting Five
Science confirms what common sense tells us: the social, emotional, physical and cognitive development of infants, toddlers and preschoolers provides the foundation for healthy development in later childhood and adolescence. Yet in Oregon, far too many children...
Is Oregon Ready to Learn?
Assessments of school readiness, when done correctly, are useful planning tools. Assessing children as they enter kindergarten allows policy-makers to identify and respond to achievement gaps and communities to determine whether children are prepared for success in...
From Risk to Resilience
The report, "From Risk to Resilience: Building the Social and Emotional Health of Oregon's Most Vulnerable Young Children," highlights why and how the social, emotional and behavioral health of young children provides the foundation for success in school and...
