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Predictors of effectiveness of early intervention on children with intellectual disability: a retrospective cohort study
BACKGROUND: The Taiwanese government has been promoting early intervention to children with intellectual disability for years, but data on its effectiveness are limited. METHODS: We recruited children who were treated for intellectual disability at a teaching hospital and had two IQ tests from 2001...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4094398/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24989708 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-14-170 |
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author | Lai, Der-Chung Chiang, Chung-Hsin Hou, Yuh-Ming Liu, Jiun-Horng Yao, Shu-Fen Guo, How-Ran Tseng, Yen-Cheng |
author_facet | Lai, Der-Chung Chiang, Chung-Hsin Hou, Yuh-Ming Liu, Jiun-Horng Yao, Shu-Fen Guo, How-Ran Tseng, Yen-Cheng |
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description | BACKGROUND: The Taiwanese government has been promoting early intervention to children with intellectual disability for years, but data on its effectiveness are limited. METHODS: We recruited children who were treated for intellectual disability at a teaching hospital and had two IQ tests from 2001 to 2005 and used the difference between the two tests as the indicator of effectiveness. RESULTS: The participants included 23 boys and 13 girls 56.5 ± 5.9 months of age at the first test and 73.4 ± 4.9 months at the second. The IQ increased from 57.0 ± 8.0 to 65.1 ± 12.3 (p < 0.001). Multi-variate regressions showed that a low maternal educational level, male gender, and a younger age at the first test were significant independent predictors of the effectiveness. CONCLUSIONS: Early intervention can improve the IQ of children with intellectual disability, and the earlier the intervention the better. The effectiveness is demonstrable in boys and more prominent in children whose mothers had a low educational level. |
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spelling | pubmed-40943982014-07-12 Predictors of effectiveness of early intervention on children with intellectual disability: a retrospective cohort study Lai, Der-Chung Chiang, Chung-Hsin Hou, Yuh-Ming Liu, Jiun-Horng Yao, Shu-Fen Guo, How-Ran Tseng, Yen-Cheng BMC Pediatr Research Article BACKGROUND: The Taiwanese government has been promoting early intervention to children with intellectual disability for years, but data on its effectiveness are limited. METHODS: We recruited children who were treated for intellectual disability at a teaching hospital and had two IQ tests from 2001 to 2005 and used the difference between the two tests as the indicator of effectiveness. RESULTS: The participants included 23 boys and 13 girls 56.5 ± 5.9 months of age at the first test and 73.4 ± 4.9 months at the second. The IQ increased from 57.0 ± 8.0 to 65.1 ± 12.3 (p < 0.001). Multi-variate regressions showed that a low maternal educational level, male gender, and a younger age at the first test were significant independent predictors of the effectiveness. CONCLUSIONS: Early intervention can improve the IQ of children with intellectual disability, and the earlier the intervention the better. The effectiveness is demonstrable in boys and more prominent in children whose mothers had a low educational level. BioMed Central 2014-07-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4094398/ /pubmed/24989708 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-14-170 Text en Copyright © 2014 Lai et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Lai, Der-Chung Chiang, Chung-Hsin Hou, Yuh-Ming Liu, Jiun-Horng Yao, Shu-Fen Guo, How-Ran Tseng, Yen-Cheng Predictors of effectiveness of early intervention on children with intellectual disability: a retrospective cohort study |
title | Predictors of effectiveness of early intervention on children with intellectual disability: a retrospective cohort study |
title_full | Predictors of effectiveness of early intervention on children with intellectual disability: a retrospective cohort study |
title_fullStr | Predictors of effectiveness of early intervention on children with intellectual disability: a retrospective cohort study |
title_full_unstemmed | Predictors of effectiveness of early intervention on children with intellectual disability: a retrospective cohort study |
title_short | Predictors of effectiveness of early intervention on children with intellectual disability: a retrospective cohort study |
title_sort | predictors of effectiveness of early intervention on children with intellectual disability: a retrospective cohort study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4094398/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24989708 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-14-170 |
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