Motivational influences on learning and development, intellectual disability, intrinsic motivation, cognitive development and cognitive education, neuropsychology, especially learning potential of persons with traumatic brain injury, dynamic/interactive assessment of learning potential.

Dr. Haywood is the co-author of Bright Start: Cognitive Curriculum for Young Children. [Haywood, H. C., Brooks, P. H., & Burns, S. (1992). Bright Start: Cognitive curriculum for young children. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge Publishers.]

Bright Start References (June 2011): A partial list of publications specifically about the Bright Start curriculum)

A Preschool Mediational Context: The Bright Start Curriculum, chapter by P. H. Brooks and H. C. Haywood