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Measuring Social-Emotional Skills in Children

  The ability to work as part of a team, build relationships, compromise, and adapt to change are skills formed during early childhood. has partnered with the to create a system that measures social-emotional skills in young children, and last year completed assessments of over 4,600 students in our region. United Way of Greater Cincinnati Community Impact Director Patricia Nagelkirk and Bill Bresser, director of Kentucky Operations for the , discuss the study and how the results will be used to create and modify youth programs in our area.

Maryanne Zeleznik joined WVXU in 2005 and is responsible for all news and public affairs programming. She also hosts Morning Edition Monday through Friday.