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Videotape Analysis Intervention with Early Head Start Mothers:
A Pilot Study
by E. Vele-Tabaddor and R. Kahana-Kalman |
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The Newborn Behavioral
Observation (NBO):
Influencing Provider Confidence
by Y. Blanchard, C.H. Keefer. K. Tynan and J. K. Nugent |
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Pollutants and Newborn Behavior
by S. K. Sagiv, J. K. Nugent, T. B. Brazelton, A.L. Choi, P. E, Tolbert, L. M. Altshul, & S. A. Korrick |
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 J. Kevin Nugent, Director of the Brazelton Institute - For this issue of Ab Initio, guest editor Elisa Vele-Tabaddor and I are very pleased to present an interview with Dr. Jack Shonkoff, Julius B. Richmond Professor of Child Health and Development at Harvard School of Public Health and Founding Director of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard. Dr. Shonkoff's formative contribution to the field of early intervention has been recognized not only by researchers and policy makers in the field of infancy, but by professionals from a wide range of disciplines who are working with parents and infants. He is one of the great advocates for children with disabilities in our time and is increasingly concerned with promoting what he calls "more productive partnerships between academic researchers and service providers." In this interview he reminds readers of the need for intervention services that are grounded in "state of the art knowledge" and underscores the importance of evidence-based practice and the need to build a stronger science base to close the gap "between what we know and what we do."
From the Editor continued
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Urbi et Orbi includes brief reports, previews of conferences, and/or broad descriptions of activities related to working with infants and their families from settings around the world.
 Cambridge, England:
Using the NBAS as a Form of Intervention
by Joanna Hawthorne, Ph.D., Center for Family Research, University of Cambridge, and Director, Brazelton Centre in Great Britain, Cambridge, England
 The United States of America:
The Video-Interaction Project:
A Pediatric Care Intervention to Promote Parent-Child Interaction
by Samantha B. Berkule, Ph.D.,
Benard P. Dreyer, M.D.,
Emily K. Forrest, M.D.,
Alan L. Mendelsohn, M.D.,
Department of Pediatrics, New York University School of Medicine- Bellevue Hospital Center, New York, USA
 Japan:
Yokohama, Japan will host the 11th World Congress of the World Association for Infant Mental Health August 1-5, 2008.
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These field notes represent the work of practitioners from different disciplines and from a wide range of clinical settings. As the title Ab Origine, suggests, this section offers a forum for practitioners to enable them to share their experiences with readers, with a view to stimulating further interest and discussion on the development of innovative approaches to working with infants and families.
Shirley Hobbs, RN
Palm Beach County, FL
Marina Carrizosa Ramos
Kansas City, KS
Sarah Muller, MPH, RN
East Harlem, NY
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*Guest Editor, Elisa Vele-Tabaddor, Ph.D. is a Developmental Psychologist with experience in infancy and early childhood research and program evaluation. Dr. Vele-Tabaddor is the Project Director of Special Initiatives at the Brazelton Touchpoints Center, Children's Hospital Boston. She is an alumna of Fairfield University and Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University.
Professionally, Dr. Vele-Tabaddor has worked as a researcher and instructor at the New York Autism Network, Westchester Institute for Human Development at New York Medical College, Rose F. Kennedy Center at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, College of Mount Saint Vincent/Manhattan College, The Education Development Center, Inc and Northeastern University.
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