The Effect of Early Institutional Rearing on The Development of Eight Year Old Children.

Tizard, Barbara; Hodges, Jill

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The Effect of Early Institutional Rearing on The Development of Eight Year Old Children

Tizard, Barbara; Hodges, Jill

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 19, 2, 99-118, Apr 78

Fifty-one children who had spent their first 2-7 years in institutions, and who had been visited previously at the age of 4 1/2 years, were reassessed at the age of 8. Seven children had never left the institutions, the rest had been adopted, fostered, or restored to their biological parent. (JB)

Descriptors: Adopted Children, Children, Early Experience, Emotional Development, Followup Studies, Foster Children, Institutionalized Persons, Intellectual Development, Social Development

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