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Peer reviewedBelsky, Jay; Steinberg, Laurence D. – Child Development, 1978
A review of the research on the effects of day care shows that high-quality, center-based day care: (1) has neither salutary nor deleterious effects on children's intellectual development; (2) is not disruptive of children's emotional bond with their mothers; and (3) increases children's interaction, both positive and negative, with their peers.…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Intellectual Development
Peer reviewedZeskind, Philip Sanford; Ramey, Craig T. – Child Development, 1978
Infants from low socioeconomic status families were randomly assigned to either an instructional day care program designed to prevent socioculturally caused mental retardation or to a nonintervention control group. The effects of these environments were then compared for fetally malnourished infants in terms of later intellectual functioning and…
Descriptors: Day Care, Infants, Intellectual Development, Intervention
Peer reviewedBreitmayer, Bonnie J.; Ramey, Craig T. – Child Development, 1986
A four-and-a-half-year longitudinal experiment reconsidered the contribution of organic impairment to the genesis of mild mental retardation among disadvantaged children. It was hypothesized that nonoptimal perinatal conditions might result in deficits that increase a child's vulnerability to environmental risk factors. Study results supported the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Cognitive Development, Day Care
