Latino toddlers lag in cognitive growth
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - 18:35
in Psychology & Sociology
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two new studies led by University of California, Berkeley, researchers find that immigrant Latina mothers, who typically live in poor neighborhoods, give birth to healthy babies, but their toddlers start to lag behind middle-class white children in basic language and cognitive skills by the age of 2 or 3.