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Socioeconomic disparities in neurocognitive development in the first two years of life

2015; Wiley; Volume: 57; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/dev.21303

1098-2302

Kimberly G. Noble, Laura E. Engelhardt, Natalie H. Brito, Luke Mack, Elizabeth J. Nail, Jyoti Angal, Rachel Barr, William P. Fifer, Amy Elliott,

Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

ABSTRACT Socioeconomic status (SES) is strongly associated with cognition and achievement. Socioeconomic disparities in language and memory skills have been reported from elementary school through adolescence. Less is known about the extent to which such disparities emerge in infancy. Here, 179 infants from socioeconomically diverse families were recruited. Using a cohort‐sequential design, 90 infants were followed at 9 and 15 months, and 89 were followed at 15 and 21 months. SES disparities in developmental trajectories of language and memory were present such that, at 21 months of age, children of highly educated parents scored approximately .8 standard deviations higher in both language and memory than children of less educated parents. The home language and literacy environment and parental warmth partially accounted for disparities in language, but not memory development. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc . Dev Psychobiol 57: 535–551, 2015.