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About the Site

About the Project

The Early Learning: Focus on Birth to Five campaign is the result of a unique collaboration between KCTS/Seattle and Seattle-based Talaris Research Institute, which studies early learning in children from birth to five years of age and translates research into practical applications for parents.

With content provided by Talaris Research Institute, this web site provides interactive information that extends six 60-second television interstitials about how children think, feel, and learn. These interstitials are airing on local PBS stations around the country and can be viewed on this Web site.

Research is giving us an extraordinary new understanding into how a child’s mind and brain develop. The campaign focuses on three key topics: how young children learn, how kids learn to communicate and how parents handle stress when children are watching.

The Early Learning: Focus on Birth to Five multimedia campaign, produced by KCTS/Seattle, is designed to help parents, caregivers and professionals develop and strengthen their parenting skills.

About the Team

Early Learning: Focus on Birth to Five is produced in Seattle by KCTS Television in partnership with the Talaris Research Institute.

KCTS/Seattle Public Television

KCTS/Seattle serves viewers by producing and presenting quality information and entertainment programs that reflect its mission to “inform, involve and inspire.” Among KCTS’ numerous national credits are the Emmy Award-winning children’s series, Bill Nye the Science Guy; the critically acclaimed PBS miniseries The Perilous Fight: America’s World War II in Color; and such popular how-to series as Graham Kerr’s Gathering Place and Nick Stellino’s Family Kitchen.

For more information about KCTS, visit www.KCTS.org.

Talaris Research Institute

Talaris is a nonprofit Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) dedicated to advancing knowledge of early brain development. Our research is focused on children from birth to age five. We sponsor scientific studies on early brain and behavioral development and then translate the research findings into useful tools and information for parents, caregivers, educators, healthcare, and business professionals.

For more information about Talaris, visit www.talaris.org.

Web Credits

Project Manager
Barbara Fenster

Executive Producer
Drew Ringo

Executive Editor
Josh Daniel

Web Development
Kris Hedstrom

Art Director
Rodney Fehsenfeld

Talaris Marketing Director
Cindi Pendergraft

Talaris Content Advisor
Scott Beers

For PBS Parents
Mark Trainer, Editor, PBS Parents
Jean Crawford, Director, PBS Parents
Malcolm Jones, Senior Designer, PBS KIDS and PBS Parents

Production Assistance
Andy Helfrich
Science McGhee
Corey Allan Martin
Jennifer Labbienti

Resources

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