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Elizabeth Vandewater, Ph.D.
From the website: Dr. Vandewater is the Director of the Center for Research on Interactive Technology, Television and Children (CRITC) at the University of Texas. Dr. Vandewater is a founding member of the NSF funded Children’s Digital Media Centers (CDMC). More...
Ellen Wartella, Ph.D.
Ellen Wartella is a leading scholar of the role of media in children’s development. More...
Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media
From the website: The Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media presents state-of-the-art research and ready-to-use facts on the media’s interaction with children and adolescents. More...
FatherLit Database
From the website: The FatherLit Database is a compilation of citations, annotations, and abstracts for over 8,500 basic and policy research publications on fathers, families, and child welfare. More...
Foundation for Child Development
From the website: The Foundation for Child Development (FCD) is a national, private philanthropy dedicated to the principle that all families should have the social and material resources to raise their children to be healthy, educated and productive members of their communities. More...
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
From the website: The Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG) is a multidisciplinary institute at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. More...
Gary Knell
From the website: Gary Knell is President and Chief Executive Officer of Sesame Workshop. Mr. Knell leads the non-profit educational organization in its mission to create innovative, engaging content that maximizes the educational power of all media to help children reach their highest potential. More...
Georgetown Early Learning Project
From the Website: The Georgetown Early Learning Project seeks to better understand how infants learn and remember information in various social situations. More...
Gloria Tristani
From the website: Former FCC Commissioner Gloria Tristani oversees the Benton Foundation’s work educating policymakers, academics, and activists about communications policy debates and advocating for tangible public interest benefits from the transition to digital broadcasting. More...
Handbook of Children and the Media
From the website: Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of renowned scholars from around the world, the Handbook of Children and the Media is the first and only all-inclusive, comprehensive analysis of the field for students and scholars. More...
Harvard Family Research Project
For over twenty years, Harvard Family Research Project has helped philanthropies, policymakers, and practitioners develop strategies to promote the educational and social success and well-being of children, families, and their communities. More...
Hillary Rodham Clinton
As First Lady, Senator of New York, and Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton has served the public on behalf of children and families. More...
International Society for Technology in Education
From the website: The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) provides leadership and service to improve teaching and learning by advancing the effective use of technology in education. More...
Jane Healy, Ph.D.
Dr. Jane Healy is a child development expert, a well-known author of Your Child’s Growing Mind and two-time U.S. Educator of the Year who currently serves as an internationally recognized lecturer and consultant. More...
Jerome L. Singer, Ph.D.
Jerome L. Singer is a specialist in research on the psychology of imagination and daydreaming. More...
Joan Ganz Cooney
Joan Ganz Cooney, co-founder in 1968 of Children’s Television Workshop (renamed, Sesame Workshop June 2000) and originator of the preschool educational series, Sesame Street, served as President and Chief Executive Officer until 1990. She is currently Chairman of the Executive Committee of Sesame Workshop’s Board. More...
Joanne Cantor, Ph.D.
Joanne Cantor, Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is an internationally recognized expert on children and the mass media. Her area of expertise is mass media effects, about which she has published more than 90 scholarly articles and chapters. More...
John Cook Wright, Ph.D.
John Cook Wright, a professor and researcher in the Division of Human Development and Family Sciences whose specialization was the effects of media on children,... More...
John P. Murray, Ph.D.
Dr. Murray’s has conducted research on children’s social development for almost 40 years—starting in 1969 as a Research Coordinator for the Surgeon General’s Scientific Advisory Committee on Television and Social Behavior at the National Institute of Mental Health, in Washington. More...
Joseph Lieberman
Senator Lieberman, along with a bipartisan coalition of senators, crafted the Children and Media Research Advancement (CAMRA) Act, which received unanimous Senate approval in September 2006. More...
Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media
From the website: The Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media is the scholarly journal published quarterly by the Broadcast Education Association. More...
Journal of Children and Media
From the website: Journal of Children and Media is an interdisciplinary and multi-method peer-reviewed publication… More...
Journal of Communication
From the website: The Journal of Communication is the flagship journal of the International Communication Association and an essential publication for all communication specialists and policy makers. More...
Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics
From the website: Written for physicians, clinicians, psychologists and researchers, each bimonthly issue of the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics is devoted entirely to the developmental and psychosocial aspects of pediatric health care. More...
Journal of Educational Psychology
From the website: The Journal of Educational Psychology is published by the American Psychological Association. More...
Journal of Media Psychology
From the website: The Journal of Media Psychology, is a non-profit, non-partisan, educational forum for research, theory, comment, criticism, review, reportage, and scholarship on the psychological impact of the media on individuals and cultures. More...
Karen Hill Scott, Ed.D.
From the website: Dr. Karen Hill Scott co-founded Crystal Stairs, one of California’s largest non-profit child development agencies; teaches at the UCLA School of Management; and contributes to child development policy through consulting and public service. More...
KCEd: KCET’s Early Childhood Initiative
From the website: KCEd is a multi-platform project [of KCET, the Los Angeles public television station,] designed to enhance the learning experiences of preschool children by increasing the resources of caregivers. More...
KidSmart Early Learning Program
The IBM KidSmart Early Learning Program integrates new interactive teaching and learning activities using the latest technology into the pre-kindergarten curricula. More...
Lesli Rotenberg
Ms. Rotenberg leads PBS KIDS Next Generation Media, a five-year initiative defining the role PBS will play in the changing digital children’s media landscape. More...
Lois Salisbury
Lois Salisbury joined the Packard Foundation as the director of the Children, Families, and Communities Program in March of 2002. More...
Markle Foundation
The Interactive Media For Children Program has aimed principally to gain in-depth knowledge about the impact of interactive media on children’s learning and development, and has worked to promote the use of that knowledge… More...
Michael Rich, M.D., M.P.H.
Dr. Rich studies media as a force that powerfully affects child health and health behavior and uses it as a tool for medical research, education, and health care policy. More...
Mind Science Foundation
From the website: The Mind Science Foundation is a 501 (c) (3) private operating foundation established by visionary philanthropist Thomas Baker Slick in 1958 to study the unexplored potential of the human mind. More...
Miriam Calderon
From the Foundation for Child Development website (http://www.child-family.umd.edu): Miriam Calderon is the Manager of the Early Childhood Education Policy Project at the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) in Washington, D.C. More...
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
From the website: The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is dedicated to improving the well-being of all young children… More...
National Center for Early Development and Learning
From the website: Research at the National Center for Early Development & Learning (NCEDL), focuses on enhancing the cognitive, social and emotional development of children from birth through age eight. More...
National Institute on Media and the Family
From the website: The National Institute on Media and the Family is an independent, nonpartisan, nonsectarian, and nonprofit organization that is based on research, education, and advocacy. More...
Ounce of Prevention Fund
From the website: The Ounce of Prevention Fund is dedicated to ensuring that, beginning at birth, children in low-income families can overcome the challenges of poverty and enter kindergarten fully prepared to achieve. More...
Parents’ Action for Children
From the website: Parents’ Action for Children was founded in 1997 by actor/director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele as the I Am Your Child Foundation (IAYC). More...
Paula Rosenthal
As Vice President of Playhouse Disney, Paula Rosenthal is responsible for creative development and the day-to-day execution of entertainment and learning-based properties. More...
PEDIATRICS
From the website: PEDIATRICS is an official peer-reviewed journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. More...
Playing for Keeps
Playing for Keeps helps to translate research about play into usable everyday practice by parents, teachers, human service providers, and the toy industry. More...
Rachel Barr, Ph.D.
Professor Barr’s research at the Georgetown Early Learning Project focuses on infant imitation, learning, and memory. More...
Ready to Learn International Center on Care and Education of Children
From the website: The Ready to Learn International Center on Care and Education of Children works in partnership… to carry out needs assessments, policy analysis, research, strategic planning, program design, technical assistance, and training. More...
Rosemarie Truglio, Ph.D.
From the website: Rosemarie Truglio is responsible for the development of the interdisciplinary curriculum on which Sesame Street is based, and for the formative research conducted to inform production… More...
Sandra Calvert, Ph.D.
Sandra L. Calvert, is Chair and Professor of the Department of Psychology at Georgetown University and the Director of the Children’s Digital Media Center, a multi-site interdisciplinary research Center funded by the National Science Foundation. More...
Sandy Wax
From the Kidscreen Website (http://www.kidscreensummit.com/2006/speakers.html): Sandy Wax is President and General Manager of PBS KIDS Sprout, the first and only 24-hour on air, on demand, and online service devoted to preschoolers and their parents and caregivers. More...
Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
From the website: The Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics was founded in 1982 to improve the health care of infants, children, and adolescents by promoting research and teaching in developmental and behavioral pediatrics. More...
Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)
From the website: The Society is a multidisciplinary, not-for-profit, professional association with a membership of approximately 5,500 researchers, practitioners, and human development professionals from over 50 countries. More...
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