Project Goals

• to enhance language and cognitive development among children from birth to five years and to demonstrate useful and effective strategies for their parents and for professionals;
  
  
• to support and strengthen the capacity of families, organizations and communities to enhance early language and cognitive development;
  
  
• to learn more about how to build and sustain organizational and community capacity over the longer term;
  
  
• to create collaborative links between interested partners, including providers of programs, academics, educators, policy-makers, parents and other community members;
  
  
• to share information and learning with communities, governments, professional groups and the general public; and
  
• to evaluate the effects of programs and approaches and develop an awareness among community-based project participants of the usefulness of evaluation in their local organizations.