Understanding the Early Years - Early Childhood Development in Hampton/Sussex, New Brunswick - April 2003
Acknowledgements
This report was prepared by J. Douglas Willms, with assistance from Shawn Dalton and Norman Daoust. The author is grateful to Liz Parkin and Satya Brink for comments on drafts of this report, and to other staff at the Applied Research Branch who assisted with the UEY study. The author is pleased to acknowledge the research team of Robyn Baxter, Carole Dilworth and Tim Dilworth and, the members of the HALL Understanding the Early Years Community Advisory Committee from Hampton/Sussex — Stephen Drost, Jane Cushing, Jean Hartlen, Leslie Allen, Sherilyn Cheeks, Linda Floyd-Sadler, Gary Hall, and Erica Gandy Owen. Without their assistance, the study would not have been possible. The author would also like to thank Magdalena Janus for her feedback on the EDI analysis. Magdalena Janus, along with Dan Offord and the Canadian Centre for Studies of Children at Risk, developed the EDI described in the first chapter of this report.