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National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, 2023
A wide range of conditions in the places where children live, grow, play, and learn can get "under the skin" and affect their developing brains and other biological systems. Rapidly advancing science around early childhood development provides increasingly clear evidence that, beginning before birth, these environmental conditions shape…
Descriptors: Place of Residence, Physical Environment, Geographic Location, Environmental Influences
National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, 2020
We know that responsive relationships and language-rich experiences for young children help build a strong foundation for later success in school. The rapidly advancing frontiers of 21st-century biological sciences now provide compelling evidence that the foundations of lifelong health are also built early, with increasing evidence of the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Lifelong Learning, Biology
National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, 2018
A healthy, engaged community depends on people achieving to the best of their potential, contributing actively to the economy and public well-being, and helping the next generation to thrive. A complex set of intertwined social and biological factors influences people's motivation to participate actively and productively in schools, jobs, and…
Descriptors: Motivation, Cognitive Development, Brain, Child Development
National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, 2012
Young children who experience severe deprivation or neglect can experience a range of negative consequences. Neglect can delay brain development, impair executive function skills, and disrupt the body's stress response. This working paper from the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child explains why neglect is so harmful in the…
Descriptors: Child Neglect, Young Children, Brain, Executive Function
National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, 2011
Being able to focus, hold, and work with information in mind, filter distractions, and switch gears is like having an air traffic control system at a busy airport to manage the arrivals and departures of dozens of planes on multiple runways. In the brain, this air traffic control mechanism is called executive functioning, a group of skills that…
Descriptors: Early Experience, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Brain