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Peer reviewedDeFries, J. C.; And Others – Intelligence, 1981
Results from the Colorado Adoption Project, a longitudinal study initiated in 1975, are reported. The cognitive ability of parents and measures of one-year olds' mental development were significantly correlated for all three parent/child comparisons. Caldwell's HOME Responsibility measure was correlated with infant intelligence in adoptive and…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Adults, Cognitive Measurement, Correlation
Peer reviewedZeskind, Philip Sanford; Ramey, Craig T. – Child Development, 1981
Presents longitudinal data regarding detrimental effects through 36 months of age on intellectual, behavioral, and social-interactional development in a nonsupportive caregiving environment, and the continuing amelioration of those effects in a supportive caregiving environment. Suggests that mothers of fetally malnourished infants may have had…
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Infants, Intellectual Development, Intelligence Differences
Peer reviewedRamey, Craig T.; Haskins, Ron – Intelligence, 1981
Infants judged to be at risk for subnormal intellectual growth were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups which varied as to educational curriculum activities. Two types of evidence, group differences and parent-child IQ correlations, demonstrate the importance of early environments in intellectual development. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Control Groups, Day Care, Developmental Programs, Early Experience
Download full textRamey, Craig T.; Haskins, Ron – 1979
Infants judged to be at risk for subnormal intellectual growth were randomly assigned to an experimental (N=27) or a control (N=25) group. Infants in both groups received medical care and dietary supplements; their families received social work services on a request basis. Experimental children participated in an educational day care program…
Descriptors: Child Development, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Early Experience
Peer reviewedLewis, Barbara A.; Singer, Lynn T.; Fulton, Sarah; Salvator, Ann; Short, Elizabeth J.; Klein, Nancy; Baley, Jill – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2002
A study of very low birth weight babies with (n=89) and without (n=71) bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) and term controls was conducted at age 8. The BPD group demonstrated reduced articulation, receptive language skills, performance IQ, and gross and fine motor skills, and almost half were enrolled in speech-language therapy. (Contains…
Descriptors: Birth Weight, Child Development, Children, Communication Disorders
Blumenthal, Janet B. – 1985
Sixty-two socioculturally homogeneous, low-income black mother/child pairs were tested and observed when the infants were 2, 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, and 36 months of age to determine the relationship between variability in parenting attitudes, skills, and behaviors and consequent variability in children's intellectual development. As expected, the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Mothers, Child Rearing, Cognitive Development
