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This brief post is an excerpt from "Universal design supports access, autonomy, and self-regulation," a section of my book "Ready to Learn: A crash course in child development, and how children experience school." Embedding need-satisfying provisions to create a barrier-free environment for diverse users is known as universal design . The term was coined by American Ronald Lawrence Mace. In 1950, at the age of nine, Mace was diagnosed with polio and, by all accounts, experien

Objectives: A. Understand the rationale for applying what we know about EF to address early educational disadvantage related to socioeconomic factors. B. Understand that the success of EF-related early interventions will hinge on the careful definition of cognitive and socioeconomic terms. C. Identify early intervention approaches and strategies suggested by EF research. In recent years, demographically sensitive research methods and models have raised awareness that cognitiv

Objectives: A. Clarify challenges involved in defining the relationships between EFs, school readiness, and student achievement. B. Summarize key research findings underlying the professional optimism that an EF focus will support student achievement. All available evidence indicates a rapid growth of EF skills between 3 and 6 years of age. During that same period, children begin leaving home for part of the day to attend more formal learning settings where they acquire funda