PPEL project

PPEL Study at Pitt!

PPEL project The Parents Promoting Early Learning Center at the University of Pittsburgh is currently conducting

Come and join us at the Be My Neighbor event! There will be tons of games and activities for the kids and several of us will be there to give you more information about our 2-year-old and 4-year-old studies!

Do parental interventions affect motor skills? A study in Denmark looked at how parent intervention and guidance can help children develop motor skills. The two groups studied were the infant motor development of parents who received the educational program/intervention (experimental) vs the group that received no outside intervention (control)....

Reasons mother's bedshare. Some benefits to bedsharing with your infant! In this study, Barry & Mckenna review reasons why mothers bedshare and its effects on infant behavior and development. Currently, in western societies, it is widely believed that bedsharing puts infants at a high risk for SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) but one of the key points of this research...

Too little to eat? Bad for baby's development! Adequate and healthy nutrition are critical for children’s development. However, in many countries around the world children either go hungry and face chronic undernutrition or eat high-caloric foods with little nutritional value which may lead to childhood obesity. The impact on child development...

We are now enrolling four-year old children and their parents! Please let us know if you’re interested! Have a great Martin Luther King Jr. weekend!

We are now enrolling both two-year-old children and four-year old children and their parents! Please let us know if you’re interested! Have a great weekend! Enjoy the weather!