Research that Benefits Children and Families - Uplifting Stories

Initially when I reviewed the options for this class assignment I was ecstatic however, as I began to brainstorm which real time story to share, I almost had a series of titles for a novel. After much thought I decided to review a few articles to see what was going on in the world that was worth sharing instead.
My searching brought me to several sites with great success stories in research to share. I decided to share from basiced.org. "Communities cannot rise out of poverty if their children do not thrive. That’s why early learning education and development programs that set a strong foundation for a child’s capacity to learn throughout life — across cognitive, social-emotional and language domains — are critical to later success" (Torrico, 2020). Children and there families face a great deal of day to day struggles and in my opinion their education and path to a better future should not be one of those struggles. This article shared a need for this country to have a program that outline the areas that children need help with the most along with the best possible approach to assisting them in obtaining their goals. According to research the first few years of a child life are the most important in reference to their developmental learning skills "when a developmental delay is not found early, children must wait to get the help they need to do well in social and educational settings" (CDC, 2020). "Save the Children developed IDELA, the International Development and Early Learning Assessment, an open-source tool that measures four key areas of early development: social-emotional skills, emergent numeracy, emergent literacy, and motor skills in children ages 3.5 to 6 years. With IDELA, every child is a “data point” and every partner who utilizes this tool is asked to share each data point as part of a worldwide, collaborative effort to aggregate what we’re learning about what’s working in early education. IDELA is now used in 70+ countries, and FH has launched it in 13 countries where we work" (Torrico, 2020).  This study discovers earlier on what children need and meets them on their level in order for them to gain the skills they need to reach their developmental goals. I found this to be great because it sought to provide children in poverty a chance to receive the needed resources to assess them in order to keep them on their learning course. "IDELA allows FH to share a common language and standardized definitions across different countries " (Torrico, 2020). Not only did this research uncover ways to build on the children strengths they developed ways to bring their home life and their parents into the process. "FH established common play areas in the community, where children can sing songs and use expressive vocabulary to communicate more with peers. At home, FH is training parents and caregivers through Care Groups to have more conversational interactions with their children, including using higher-level vocabulary in daily life" (Torrico, 2020).


Resources

Basic Education Coalition. (2020, January 24). Success stories of how global basic education transforms the lives of real children. Retrieved from https://www.basiced.org/impact-qualitative

Child Development Basics. (2020, March 5). Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/childdevelopment/facts.html

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