Publications

The following are evidence-based resources concerning the importance of the early years for parents and professionals that work closely with families and children.

• The Early Years Study

  • by Hon. Margaret Norrie McCain and J. Fraser Mustard

• The Early Years Study Three Years Later

  • by Hon. Margaret Norrie McCain and J. Fraser Mustard

• The Early Years Study 2: Putting Science into Action

  • by Hon. Margaret Norrie McCain, J. Fraser Mustard, and Dr. Stuart Shanker

• The ACE Study

  • Vincent J. Felitti

• The Science of Early Development

  • National Scientific Council on the Developing Child

• Early Child Development: Emerging Best Practices

  • Fraser Mustard Chair in Childhood Development

• Experience-based Brain Development: Scientific Underpinnings of the Importance of Early Child Development in a Global World

  • by J. Fraser Mustard

• Measuring Child Development to Leverage ECD Policy and Investment

  • by J. Fraser Mustard and Mary E. Young

• Investing in the Early Years: Closing the gap between what we know and what we do

  • J. Fraser Mustard’s final report as South Australia’s Thinker in Residence

• Role of Experience in Brain Development

  • Dr. Charles Nelson

• The Child Care Transition

  • UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre

• Closing the Gap in a Generation

  • WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health

• The Brains of Babes

  • CBC Radio series on Early Child Development

• Stress and Resiliency Videos

  • This video provides a summary of the Stress & Resiliency in Children Living in Families Impacted by Addiction Symposium. Featured speakers include Jerry Moe, Sonia Lupien and Don Coyhis.

• Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and the Childhood Roots of Health Disparities

  • Jack P. Shonkoff, W. Thomas Boyce, Bruce S. McEwen