Çocuk Eğitiminde İlk Dokuz Ay Bile Önemli — Children Can Fall Behind As Early As Nine Months

Children can fall behind geri kalmak as early as nine months

Warwick Mansell

The Guardian, Wednesday 17 February 2010

Children who do not reach key developmental milestones dönüm noktası at just nine months old are far more likely to struggle at school, according to an important study published today.

The Millennium Cohort Study of nearly 15,000 children says that babies who were slow to develop their motor devimsel skills yetenek at nine months were significantly önemli derecede more likely to be identified as behind in their cognitive bilişsel development, and also likely to be less well behaved at age five.

The findings sonuç will intensify kuvvetlendirmek the debate tartışma on how far the government should intervene araya girmek to stop those from disadvantaged backgrounds falling behind before they even reach school. The correlation ilişki between performance at nine months and five years was said to be significant önemli even after the researchers considered the impact etki of poverty on children's development.

The difficulties facing children from poor background zemin; geçmiş are likely to be a key election battleground savaş alanı.

Earlier this week, a study by the Sutton Trust charity hayırseverlik found that children from the poorest homes are more than a year behind their peers akran from well-off backgrounds in their acquisition edinme of vocabulary by the time they start school.

However, critics of early intervention say parents should be left to bring up their children without detailed monitoring gözleme.

Academics from London University's Institute of Education analysed the progress of 14,853 children, born in 2000 and 2001, from birth to five. The children's cognitive development was assessed belirlemek at the age of five through a series of vocabulary,spatial uzaysal reasoning and picture tests, and their results compared with those from separate assessments years earlier.

The results at five were strongly linked to the babies' abilities in tests for gross motor development, such as crawling emeklemek, and fine motor development, such as holding objects with their fingers, at nine months. The researchers also found that children who are read to every day at three are likely to be flourishing büyümek in a wide range of subjects by the age of five. Children who failed at nine months to reach four key milestones in gross motor development, relating to sitting unaided tek başına, crawling, standing and taking their first walking steps, were found to be five points behind on average in cognitive ability tests taken at age five, compared to those who passed the milestones. This equates eşit saymak to the difference between being in the middle of the ability range in the cognitive tests, and being below average ortalama.

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The Department of Health said: "Children's health and wellbeing iyilik is a key priority öncelik for [the] government. The department looks at a range of research and will consider this report alongside yanında all others. "The Healthy Child Programme for the first years, relaunched in October 2009, focuses on a universal preventative koruyucu service hizmet, providing families with a programme of screening, immunisation, health and development reviews."