The gap between white and Mexican-American children in cognitive skills such as oral language is apparent at age 2, according to a recent study from UC Berkeley.
The gap is largest between white children and the children of immigrant parents, the researchers found in their report, Differing Cognitive Trajectories of Mexican American Toddlers: The Role of Class, Nativity and Maternal Practices.
Young children from immigrant families are healthy and have about the same level of social and emotional skills as white children, the researchers found. And at age 9 months, they perform about the same as white infants.
[For more of this story, written by Susan Frey, go to http://edsource.org/2015/mexic...s/77678#.VSV9j_nF9PJ]
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