Early adolescent outcomes of institutionally-deprived and non-deprived adoptees. II: language as a protective factor and a vulnerable outcome.
J Child Psychol Psychiatry
; 48(1): 31-44, 2007 Jan.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
There is uncertainty about the extent to which language skills are part of general intelligence and even more uncertainty on whether deprivation has differential effects on language and non-language skills.METHODS:
Language and cognitive outcomes at 6 and 11 years of age were compared between a sample of 132 institution-reared Romanian children adopted into UK families under the age of 42 months, and a sample of 49 children adopted within the UK under the age of 6 months who had not experienced either institutional rearing or profound deprivation.RESULTS:
The effects of institutional deprivation were basically similar for language and cognitive outcomes at age 6; in both there were few negative effects of deprivation if it ended before the age of 6 months and there was no linear association with duration of deprivation within the 6 to 42 month range. For the children over 18 months on arrival (range 18-42 months), the presence of even very minimal language skills (imitation of speech sounds) at the time of arrival was a strong beneficial prognostic factor for language and cognitive outcomes, but not for social/emotional/behavioural outcomes. Individual variations in adoptive parent characteristics were unrelated to differences in language or cognitive outcomes, possibly as a consequence of the limited variability in the adoptive family group.CONCLUSIONS:
Minimal language probably indexes some form of cognitive reserve that, in turn, indexes the degree of institutional deprivation.
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Assunto principal:
Carência Psicossocial
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Adoção
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Transtornos Cognitivos
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Institucionalização
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Transtornos do Desenvolvimento da Linguagem
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Adolescent
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Child
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Child Psychol Psychiatry
Ano de publicação:
2007
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Reino Unido