Thriving Young Children

The College of Education and Human Sciences envisions that every young child will be ready to thrive by the time they reach kindergarten. And, by age 8, every young child will be on a positive trajectory to achieve their maximum potential.

Chrishana Lloyd, research scholar at Child Trends, delivers her keynote address April 23 at the 2024 CYFS Early Childhood Research Summit. (Kyleigh Skaggs, CYFS)

08 May 2024    By Chuck Green, CYFS

Early Childhood Research Summit helps connect research, practice, policy

University of Nebraska researchers joined practitioners, administrators, community partners and policymakers April 23 for the 2024 CYFS Early Childhood Research Summit, which highlighted the latest research to advance early childhood education and development.

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Yao Yao poses for a portrait on a balcony

19 Mar 2024    By Erin Duffy, Buffett Early Childhood Institute

Graduate scholar works with families to promote early childhood science

Yao Yao, a doctoral student in Child, Youth and Family Studies, is using funding from the Graduate Scholars program to study how parents can use specific activities and conversation strategies to support the science learning of preschool-age children.

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Mollie Von Kampen leads the children on a field trip.

18 Mar 2024    By Kristina Jackson, University Communication and Marketing

Partnerships integrate Staples lab children into campus community

For children at the Ruth Staples Child Development Lab, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln campuses become their playground.

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Devin Shaughnessy, an elementary and special education major, helps Max Petersen build words during a tutoring session at the Schmoker Reading Center

01 Mar 2024    By Kelcey Buck

‘Hidden gem’ Schmoker Reading Center helps children overcome reading difficulties

For more than 15 years, the Kit and Dick Schmoker Reading Center has helped children in the community who are struggling with reading through one-on-one tutoring provided by Husker undergraduate and graduate students under the direction of University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty and certified teachers.

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Hailey Klein, a graduate student in speech-language pathology, works with a young child during a session of the Itty Bitty Sports program

16 Jan 2024    

From the clinic to the court, Klein applies speech pathology work

As an Itty Bitty Sports coach, Hailey Klein’s campus job allows her to apply speech-language pathology techniques on the court in tandem with her clinical work through the College of Education and Human Sciences’ graduate program.

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Eight individuals dressed in business clothing stand outdoors smiling for a photo.

21 Nov 2023    By Chuck Green, CYFS

Nebraska WORDS targets post-pandemic reading success, educator growth

Nebraska researchers are working to boost reading outcomes for rural students in kindergarten through third grade by providing professional learning opportunities to teachers across the state, speeding up pandemic recovery for students with reading difficulties.

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Julia Torquati stands smiling outdoors with the Nebraska State Capitol behind her.

03 Nov 2023    By Chuck Green, CYFS

Partnership aims to diversify, strengthen Nebraska’s early childhood workforce

Researchers, educators and community partners from across Nebraska are working to find a lasting solution to support, expand and diversify the state’s early childhood workforce to ensure positive developmental outcomes for children birth to age 8.

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Saima Hasni sits on a blue chair in Carolyn Pope Edwards Hall

31 Oct 2023    By Chuck Green, CYFS

Study finds variety, cost effectiveness can become barriers to children’s vegetable consumption

Researchers recently completed a project to better understand family child care home providers’ preparation and serving of vegetables, and their influence on children’s vegetable consumption.

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Ciara Ousley stands in front of a blue wall with colorful blocks that spell out SCADD LAB.

12 Oct 2023    By Chuck Green, CYFS

Research explores technology to support speech among children with autism

Nebraska researcher Ciara Ousley is exploring ways to enable and enhance communication for children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.

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Hope Gerde presents in front of a large group of people in Carolyn Pope Edwards Hall.

03 Oct 2023    

Research, best practices highlighted at Helen Kelley Symposium on Early Childhood

Researchers from Rutgers, Texas A&M and Nebraska gathered Sept. 28 at Carolyn Pope Edwards Hall to share research findings and discuss educator best practices at the Helen Kelley Symposium on Early Childhood.

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