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1 Offord Centre for Child Studies (2005). School Readiness to Learn Project.
Retrieved August 22, 2006, from http://www.offordcentre.com/readiness/index

2 McCain, M. N., & Mustard, J. F., (1999). Early Years Study Final Report: Reversing
the real brain drain. Report commissioned by the Ontario Children’s Secretariat,
Toronto Ontario.

3 Offord Centre for Child Studies (2005). School Readiness to Learn Project.
Retrieved August 22, 2006, from http://www.offordcentre.com/readiness/index.

4 McCain, M. N., & Mustard, J. F., (1999). Early Years Study Final Report: Reversing
the real brain drain. Report commissioned by the Ontario Children’s Secretariat,
Toronto Ontario.

5 Rhode Island KIDS COUNT (2005). Getting Ready: Findings from the National
School Readiness Indicators Initiative. A 17 State Partnership. Retrieved on August
22, 2006, from
http://www.gettingready.org/matriarch/MultiPiecePage.asp_Q_PageID_E_318_A
_PageName_E_NationalSchoolReadinessIndicat

6 Doherty, G. (1997). Zero to six: The basis for school readiness. Retrieved August
22, 2006, from http://www11.sdc.gc.ca/en/cs/sp/sdc/pkrf/publications/1997-
002557/page01.shtml

7 Doherty, G. (1997). Zero to six: The basis for school readiness. Retrieved August
22, 2006, from http://www11.sdc.gc.ca/en/cs/sp/sdc/pkrf/publications/1997-
002557/page01.shtml

8 Offord Centre for Child Studies (2006). 2005/2006 EDI Implementation.
Unpublished Document.

9 On-Line Resource: Vickers, D. (2003) Early Years Demonstration Projects.
www.founders.net

10 Coren, E. , Barlow, J. (2005) Individual and group-based parenting
programmes for improving psychosocial outcomes for teenage parents and their
children. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 4: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

11 KSI Research International Inc. (2003) Early Childhood Development in the
Dixie Bloor Community of Mississauga, Ontario: Her Majesty the Queen in Right
of Canada: Canada

12 On-Line Resource: The Ottawa Coalition for the Prevention of Low Birth
Weight (2003) What is low birth weight?
http://www.successby6ottawa.ca/lbwfpn/english/index.html

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