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Welcome to the homepage of the Early Learning Center Research Program at the University of Delaware.
The UD Early Learning Center stimulates and promotes research activities specifically with children from birth through 12-years of age, their families, and their communities. Collaborative interdisciplinary activities are especially valued and core/universal assessments are collected on all children and their families to provide a database for ongoing research.
The Early Learning Center (ELC) is located on the campus of the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware. The ELC opened on June 14, 2004, and is a full day child care facility for children from 6 weeks to 12 years old. The ELC serves up to 237 children: 30 infants in 6 classrooms; 48 toddlers in six classrooms; 84 preschoolers in six classrooms; 15 kindergarteners in one classroom; and 52 school-age children in before and after-school and summer program care.
On-going research with investigators who are examining psychological, neurological, physical, social, and emotional issues in children’s development;
On-going research with investigators who are examining the impact, effectiveness, and efficacy of prevention and intervention strategies across disciplines;
An emphasis on translational research that will take the results of basic research and use those results to inform prevention and intervention activities;
Monthly seminars focusing on trans-disciplinary research and investigations
Graduate, undergraduate and community seminars in psychology, physical therapy, nursing, early childhood and primary education, family studies, sociology, anthropology, and urban affairs;
Clinical experience placements for students in nursing; music education; foreigh languages; elementary education; physical therapy; hotel, restaurant & institutional management; business; health & exercise sciences; individual & family studies; nutrition; psychology.
Upcoming Courses at the ELC