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Brainwonders

Description

From the website: This site is designed to provide parents, caregivers and pediatric and family clinicians with meaningful information about early brain development and the relationships between babies and their parents and caregivers that support intellectual and social-emotional development. New research in neuroscience has validated the passionate conviction that parents of very young children and professionals have long felt - that the experiences children have in the first three years of life are crucial to their healthy physical, emotional and intellectual development. While it is certainly true that the brain continues to develop well beyond the first years of life, this site focuses on birth to age three as a time when parents, child care providers and pediatric/family clinicians can provide rich input to the developing brain. Rich environments and nurturing relationships between babies and adults support growth in all aspects of the baby’s development. Yet this new knowledge has not been readily available to those most able to apply it - parents, caregivers, and pediatric and family clinicians. BrainWonders provides this knowledge in formats that meet the needs of each of these three distinct yet inter-connected audiences so that everyone who relates to babies and toddlers will have information about how to support healthy development. The website is a collaborative project of: Boston University School of Medicine, the Erikson Institute, and Zero to Three Organization.

Topic(s): Cognitive Development & Learning

User Type(s): Academic, Advocate, Educator, Health Practitioner

Address

Boston University School of Medicine
Boston Medical Center
One Boston Medical Center Place
Boston , Massachusetts 02118

Contact Information

Phone(s): 617-414-4767; 312-755-2250; 202- 638-1144
URL(s): http://www.zerotothree.org/brainwonders

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