Introducing....the NEW Dialog!!!!

Welcome to the launch of the NEW Dialog! 

We have a new look and a new name!  Yet, we have the SAME dedication to serving as an open access journal focused on bridging research to practice for early childhood inclusion.

To honor our past, we retain our identity as "The Dialog." As we transition to the future, we will be known as,

The Dialog: A Journal for Inclusive Early Childhood Professionals

The mission of The Dialog: A Journal for Inclusive Early Childhood Professionals is to: a) offer a quality outlet for sharing research results with the early childhood community, b) ensure that research results are effectively translated for practice and policy, and c)  provide a forum for communication between researchers, faculty, families, policy makers, and practitioners.

The Dialog is specifically interested in manuscripts that highlight innovative and/or evidence-based practices of early childhood programs and personnel preparation to improve the well-being of young children and their families. Areas of consideration include: child health and mental health; child development; community issues; family support and resiliency; multicultural and multilingual issues; new measures, methods, and analytic strategies; approaches to personnel preparation, parenting and parent engagement; quality issues in early childhood education; meaningful inclusion; equity; transitions; programmatic and policy issues, and more!

The Dialog welcomes conceptual articles, practice or program descriptions, systematic literature reviews, and reports of original research. We are particularly interested in research built on meaningful partnerships that may include the joint development of research questions, design, methods, measures, and implementation. Manuscripts are welcomed from the fields of education, special education, psychology, sociology, pediatrics, family medicine, public health, psychiatry, nursing, social work, dentistry, anthropology, law, epidemiology, public policy, and allied health. All submissions will undergo rigorous, blind peer review with embedded author support from our editorial team.

Research papers should report original research findings or provide a critical review of a research study, program evaluation, practice, or policy perspective with the aim of supporting implementation in the field. To ensure the journal supports research to practice connections, authors of research manuscripts accepted for publication will be asked to create a separate research-to-practice article summarizing the research findings from the article as they relates to implications for practitioners, families, and others in the early childhood community. This article will be published in the same issue of The Dialog: A Journal for Inclusive Early Childhood Professionals as the peer-reviewed research article.

More exciting things are the the works including:

• The publication of our first issue since this launch, a special issue focused on Supporting Multilingual Families in Early Childhood Spaces, and
• A formal call for reviewers, editorial board members, and associate editors.

Stay tuned!

Ann M. Mickelson, PhD

Editor-in-Chief