Search Results - "Language development."

Household food security is associated with early childhood language development: Results from a longitudinal study in rural Bangladesh by Saha, Kuntal K., Tofail, F., Frongillo, Edward A., Rasmussen, K. M., Arifeen, S. E., Persson, L. A., Huda, S. N., Hamadani, J. D.

“…Mean language comprehension and expression at 18 months of the children in higher quartiles of HHFS were higher (P < 0.05) than those of the children in lower quartiles.Conclusions  Household food security is positively associated with subsequent language development of rural Bangladeshi children. Early language development has been reported to predict later child development. …”
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Early life risk factors of motor, cognitive and language development: A pooled analysis of studies from low/middle-income countries by Sania, Ayesha, Sudfeld, Christopher R., Danaei, Goodarz, Fink, Günther, McCoy, Dana C., Hidrobo, Melissa

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The impact of Tubaramure, a food-assisted integrated health and nutrition program in Burundi, on children's development by Olney, Deanna K., Leroy, Jef L., Bliznashka, Lilia, Ruel, Marie T.

“…There were no significant program impacts on motor or language development among children aged 4‐11 m. Tubaramure had a significant impact on motor development around the age when children obtain bipedal locomotion and on language development as they gain more language skills.Funded by USAID's Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project & CGIAR Research Program on A4NH, led by IFPRI.…”
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Maternal resources for care are associated with child growth and early childhood development in Bangladesh and Vietnam by Basnet, Sulochana, Frongillo, Edward A., Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Moore, Spencer, Arabi, Mandana

“…This study examined the association of maternal resources for care on child length, motor development and language development of children 12–23.9 months old. Methods: We used baseline data from the Alive & Thrive household surveys collected in Bangladesh (n = 803) and Vietnam (n = 635). …”
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Large-scale behavior-change initiative for infant and young child feeding advanced language and motor development in a cluster-randomized program evaluation in Bangladesh by Frongillo, Edward A., Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Saha, Kuntal K., Sanghvi, Tina, Afsana, Kaosar, Haque, Raisul, Baker, Jean, Ruel, Marie T., Rawat, Rahul, Menon, Purnima

“…Results The DID in language development between intensive and nonintensive groups was 1.05 milestones (P = 0.001) among children aged 6–23.9 mo and 0.76 milestones (P = 0.038) among children aged 24–47.9 mo. …”
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Long term association between of maternal preconception hemoglobin and anemia and child health and development in Vietnam by Young, Melissa F., Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Tran, Lan Mai, Khuong, Long Quynh, Martorell, Reynaldo, Ramakrishnan, Usha

“…Maternal preconception anemia was negatively associated with cognition (-1.64; 95% CI: -3.09, -0.19) and language development (-1.61; 95% CI: -3.20, -0.03) at 24mo. …”
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