Scholastic achievement among children enrolled in the Seychelles Child Development Study

This study reports a secondary analysis of the scholastic achievement data to test the hypothesis that the results obtained in the primary analysis were probably due to the onset of the primary school curriculum between the first and second testing, and not to inherent cognitive deficits among the children at 66 months. The results suggest that a combination of reading instruction and characteristically consistent letter-sound relationships in Creole, the language spoken at home by the majority of Seychellois families, probably accounted for the high achievement scores at 107 months.PMID:33742601 | DOI:10.1016/j.neuro.2020.09.027
Source: Neurotoxicology - Category: Neurology Authors: Source Type: research