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Brito, Natalie H.; Werchan, Denise; Brandes-Aitken, Annie; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Greaves, Ashley; Zhang, Maggie – Child Development, 2022
The first months of life are critical for establishing neural connections relevant for social and cognitive development. Yet, the United States lacks a national policy of paid family leave during this important period of brain development. This study examined associations between paid leave and infant electroencephalography (EEG) at 3 months in a…
Descriptors: Infants, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Leaves of Absence, Mothers
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Super, Charles M.; And Others – Child Development, 1990
At 3 years of age, children who had received food supplementation were an average of 2.6 cm and 642 grams larger than controls. Home visiting and supplementation combined reduced the number of children with severe growth retardation. Participants were 280 infants and their families from poor neighborhoods in Bogota, Colombia. (RH)
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Body Height, Body Weight, Cognitive Development