The First 3 Years
Attachment
ACEs
Important Dates & Figures
Significant Research & Researchers
100
Acquiring self-regulation, communicating and learning, and getting along with peers are key components of this
What is school readiness?
100
This is the mantra of attachment theory
What is "relationships, relationships, relationships"?
100
The original ACE study population lived in this state
What is California?
100
1985
What year was Back to the Future released?
100
This important book was released in 2000
What is From Neurons to Neighborhoods?
200
Extreme poverty, physical or emotional abuse, chronic neglect, severe maternal depression substance abuse, and family violence are leading causes of this
What is toxic stress?
200
Emotional availability, provision of comfort, and protection are domains of this
What is the attachment relationship?
200
This is the highest possible ACE score
What is 10?
200
1100
How many days til the 3rd birthday?
200
This Nobel Prize winning economist extolled the virtues of investments in early childhood
Who is James Heckman?
300
It can suppress the immune system, reduce number of cell connections, impair memory, impair selective attention, and create anxious behavior
What is the hormone cortisol?
300
Through experiences with attachment figures, babies develop these about the dependability of their attachment figures
What are expectations?
300
Abuse, neglect, and family dysfunction
What are the domains/categories of ACE?
300
1971
In what year did Congress pass a bill for universal pre-k?
300
In 1952 this attachment theorist wrote that an young child should experience a warm, intimate, and continuous relationship with his mother or mother substitute
Who is John Bowlby
400
This is called the biological clock of a cell
What is a telomere?
400
Under usual rearing conditions, infants develop "focused" attachments in this age range
What is 7-9 months of age?
400
This is the location of Early Death on the ACEs Pyramid
What is the top?
400
1826
How many days til the 5th birthday?
400
This lead investigator of the ACEs study is quoted as saying "What's predictable is preventable"
Who is Robert Anda?
500
This predicts academic and social readiness for school over and above Intelligence and Prior academic knowledge
What is executive function?
500
Attachment is strongly predictive of this for a child
What is social adaptation?
500
This percentage of Washington 10th graders have 3 or more ACEs
What is 42%?
500
17,000
How many people were studied as part of the original ACEs study?
500
Abcedarian, Chicago, and Perry
What are the longitudinal studies that document the benefits of early childhood investments.