Geiger, Dr. H. Jack, professor and chairman, Department of Preventive Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass., and Project Director, Tufts-Delta Health Center, Bolivar County, Miss__- Godbouldt, Mrs. Clara, chairman, Headstart Parents Advisory Council, Economic and Youth Opportunities Agency of Greater Los Angeles....... Mendelsohn, Dr. Robert S., associate professor and director, Division of Community Pediatrics, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Ortega, Mrs. Connie, Headstart Parents Advisory Council, Economic and Youth Opportunities Agency of Greater Los Angeles.. Prouty, Hon. Winston L., a U.S. Senator from the State of Vermont. Schaefer, Dr. Earl S., research psychologist, Center for Studies of Child and Family Mental Health, National Institure of Mental Health, Health Services and Mental Health Administration, Department of Health, "Children Make Strong Gains in Headstart, Study Claims,” by Jack "Improving the Opportunities and Achievements of the Children of the Poor," report prepared for the Office of Economic Opportunity by a panel of authorities on child development. Incentives to business participation in day care (with attachments) __ "Progress Report on Intellectual Stimulation of Culturally Deprived Infants," by the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and References and brief notes pertaining to the intellectual development of the infant from 15 months to 36 months- Littleman, Mr. John W., Director, Income Tax Division, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Treasury Department, Washington, D.C., from: Jule Sugarman, Acting Director, Office of Child Develop- ment, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washing- ington, D.C., August 19, 1969--- Shriver, Mr. Sargent, Director, Office of Economic Opportunity, from: Dr. Robert Coake, Chairman, Planning Committee, Project Sugarman, Mr. Jule M., Chairman, Federal Panel on Early Child- hood, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, Lester W. Utter, Chief, Individual Income Tax Branch, Internal Revenue Service, Washington, D.C., May 13, 1969 (with McGraw, Dennis A., Acting Chief, Individual Tax Branch, Internal Revenue Service, August 28, 1969. Zuckerman, Mr. Fred, Corporation Tax Branch, Income Tax Division, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Public Health Service, HEW, in re Research Grants and Contracts in National Institute of Child Health and Human Development... Office of Education, HEW, in re information on early childhood re- Memorandum from-Continued Public Health Service, National Institute of Mental Health, HEW, in re list and project summaries of active NIMH grants in early child care and development.. Page 214 National Institute of Mental Health_ 214 Active NIMH projects in the area of child care and development__ 214 Research objectives, Public Health Service, HEW.. 280 Research projects: Tables: Office of Economic Opportunity. 251 Children's Bureau, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare__ 264 Headstart-Children and amount by fiscal years. 127 Major Federal programs for day care.. 135 NICHD extramural research related to early childhood, fiscal year 1969__ 219 A. Health_ 219 B. Nutrition_. 231 C. Ontogenesis and development of the learning process_ 234 242 NICHD intramural research related to early childhood, fiscal year 1969__ 245 A. Health 245 B. Nutrition (not included in this table). C. Ontogenesis and development of the learning process. 247 248 A. Health__ B. Nutrition__ NICHD contracts related to early childhood, fiscal year 1969_ C. Ontogenesis and development of the learning process- 248 248 249 250 HEADSTART CHILD DEVELOPMENT ACT MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1969 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON EMPLOYMENT, MANPOWER AND POVERTY, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met at 9:38 a.m., pursuant to notice, in room 4232, New Senate Office Building, Senator Gaylord Nelson (chairman of the subcommittee), presiding. Present: Senators Nelson (presiding), Mondale, and Hughes. Committee staff members present: Robert O. Harris, staff director; William R. Bechtel, majority counsel to the subcommittee; and John Scales, minority counsel to the subcommittee. Senator NELSON. Our witnesses this morning are Dr. Robert S. Mendelsohn, our second witness will be Dr. Jack Geiger, and our third witness will be Mrs. Christine Branche, directing supervisor. This morning, we are beginning 3 days of hearings on the proposed Headstart Child Development Act of 1969 (S. 2060), the bill introduced on May 5 by Senator Mondale and 22 other Senators. Our hearings on this legislation will continue tomorrow and Wednesday. (The text of S. 2060 appears on p. 3.) Senator NELSON. As chairman of the subcommittee, I extended invitations to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Robert Finch and to the Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, Donald Rumsfeld, to appear at these hearings. Mr. Rumsfeld indicated that the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare would represent the administration. We offered Secretary Finch the opportunity of appearing before the committee as the leadoff witness this morning. Secretary Finch has informed the subcommittee that Assistant Secretary James Farmer will testify before the committee in his place and asked that Mr. Farmer, accompanied by Mr. Jule Sugarman, Acting Director of the Office of Child Development, be scheduled to testify on Wednesday morning. The President, in his message of February 19 on antipoverty programs, pointed to the importance for human development of environ mental influences in the early years of life, citing the fact that as muc takes place in the development of intelligence in the first 4 years (1) life as in the next 13 years. President Nixon set forth his conclusion in these words: "So crucial is the matter of early growth that we must make a national commitment to providing all American children an opportunity for healthful and stimulating development during the first 5 years of life." Senator Mondale's bill, of which I am proud to be one of the cosponsors, sets forth the legislative framework for carrying out a national commitment to reach the goal stated by the President. S. 2060 would amend title V of the Economic Opportunity Act to authorize a comprehensive Headstart child development program. In order to extend the program to serve all deprived children in the Nation over a 5-year period, the legislation authorizes substantially increased appropriations over current levels for Headstart and related child development efforts. Funds appropriated under this legislation would be used for child development projects for children below the age of compulsory school attendance. Comprehensive health, nutritional, educational, and social services would be integral to these programs. Services for expectant or nursing mothers in low-income families would be designed to help reduce malnutrition, infant and maternal mortality and the incidence of mental retardation and other handicapped conditions. The Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity would have policymaking responsibilities, but the present authority in the Economic Opportunity Act for delegating administrative functions to other agencies with the approval of the President would remain unimpaired. Accordingly, the program could be coordinated and implemented in conjunction with related programs in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, as is now being done with the Headstart program. The committee is pleased to have three witnesses today who are experts in the field of early childhood. Before we hear from the witnesses, let me ask if members of the committee have opening statements they desire to make at this time. I understand that Senator Mondale has a statement. At the conclusions of the opening statements, there will be printed in the hearing record a copy of S. 2060, a section-by-section analysis, and other documents relating to the bill. Senator Mondale, did you wish to make an opening statement? May I express my appreciation to you for cosponsoring this legislation, but more importantly, for agreeing to schedule 3 days of hearings, which I think mark this as a landmark of congressional interest in the early childhood issue. Many of the top minds of the country have eagerly responded to your request to testify on this issue, and hopefully this hearing will establish a hearing record that will bring to the attention of the Congress the growing and pervasive feeling on the part of those who are dealing with the childhood programs that this offers one of the great hopes and opportunities for assuring a fair opportunity for all our people. Mr. Chairman, I am very pleased that you have called these hearings on S. 2060, the Headstart Child Development Act of 1969, which I introduced with 23 cosponsors on May 5, 1969. |