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Magnuson, Katherine A.; Sexton, Holly R.; Davis-Kean, Pamela E., Huston, Aletha C. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2009
Maternal education is a strong correlate of children's language, cognitive, and academic development. In most prior research, mothers' education has been treated as a fixed characteristic, yet many mothers, particularly economically and educationally disadvantaged mothers, attend school after the birth of their children. In the present study, we…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Mothers, Educationally Disadvantaged, Young Children
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Morisset, Colleen E.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1995
Used observations and home visits to examine sex differences in language ability of 54 disadvantaged children at risk for poor language outcomes. Found that language difficulties increased over time, boys were at a constant disadvantage to girls in language development, and sex difference in language ability appeared even when families had similar…
Descriptors: Adults, At Risk Persons, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes