"Parents are in a really tough position, " says Dr. Elissa Jelalian, a staff psychologist at the Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center who focuses on the development of intervention programs for children.

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One of the areas identified for early years intervention was children's language development.

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"Early intervention is key, because brain development starts before birth, " says Dr. Pat Levitt, director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development in Nashville, Tennessee.

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The US had warned that such a development would be a "red line" for possible intervention.

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These indicators also increasingly serve to legitimise types of intervention and operating modes of aid and policies of development.

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Dr. Kozue Kay Nagata, Director, UNESCO Islamabad in her message highlighted the importance of early intervention through Early Childhood Care and Education in the development of children with Down syndrome.

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And the U.S. had warned that such a development would be, quote, "redline" for possible intervention.

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He is a developmental and community psychologist whose research focuses on the development of young children in ethnically diverse and immigrant families and the effects of public policies and early childhood intervention on children.

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