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Journal article

Predicting problems in school performance from preschool health, developmental and behavioural assessments.

Abstract

To determine the accuracy of various predictors of school problems, we conducted a 3-year prospective study of 1999 children who began school in the Niagara region of Ontario in 1980. During the year before school entry the parents gave a health, developmental and behavioural history during an interview with a community health nurse, and the children underwent vision and hearing screening tests and the Denver Developmental Screening Test …

Authors

Cadman D; Walter SD; Chambers LW; Ferguson R; Szatmari P; Johnson N; McNamee J

Journal

Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 139, No. 1, pp. 31–36

Publication Date

July 1, 1988

ISSN

0820-3946