Understanding the Early Years - Early Childhood Development in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - November 2002

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 in Saskatoon, Loretta Hartsook, Brian Hartsook, Nazeem Muhajarine and Sue Delanoy. Their efforts made this study possible. The author would also like to thank Magdalena Janus and Dan Offord at the Canadian Centre for Studies of Children at Risk, who developed the EDI described in the first chapter of this report.