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Teaching Parents a Strategy for Enhancing Infant Development.
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Metzl, Marilyn Newman – Child Development, 1980
Normal, first-born children of two-parent, self-supporting families (N=60) were divided into three groups at birth: control, mothers receiving a specific language stimulation program, and both parents receiving the program simultaneously. Infants whose parents received simultaneous training exhibited the greatest gain over 4 1/2 months in Bayley…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Infants, Intellectual Development, Intervention
EEG Patterns of Preterm Infants, Home Environment, and Later IQ.
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Beckwith, Leila; Parmelee, Arthur H. Jr. – Child Development, 1986
Studied the sleep state organization and EEG patterns at term date in 53 preterm infants as an index of the maturity and integrity of neurophysiological organization that may have implications for their later development. (HOD)
Descriptors: Electroencephalography, Family Environment, Infant Behavior, Intellectual Development
Ethnic Differences in Children's Intelligence Test Scores: Role of Economic Deprivation, Home Environment, and Maternal Characteristics.
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Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Examined differences in intelligence test scores of black and white five-year-olds born premature with low birth weight. Found that black children's IQ scores were 1 SD lower than those of white children. Adjustments for ethnic differences in poverty reduced the differential by half; adjustments for differences in home environment reduced it by…
Descriptors: Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Family Environment, Intellectual Development
Biological Nonoptimality and Quality of Postnatal Environment as Codeterminants of Intellectual Development.
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Breitmayer, 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