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The babies descended of resourceless families would have advantage to frequent a service on duty full-time since the first year of their life, in order to benefit from a better training of the language. It is what of the researchers of the departments of social medicine, psychiatry and psychology of the university of Montreal, in a recent survey led on more of 2 000 children canadiens1, sustain.

The linguistic expertises of the children have been valued of the age of 4 years to 5 years with the help of a test that consisted in presenting some drawings to the children. They had to name what they saw then.

According to the results, the children of underprivileged surroundings having frequented a young day nursery got eight points besides to the test that those that remained home. Besides, the children descended of resourceless families who had been in a day nursery had a vocabulary equivalent to the one of the other children. The company of a day nursery before the age of 1 year doesn’t seem to have had no effect however on the language of the children of favored families.

” The first year of life seems to be crucial for the development of the language”, affirm Marie-Claude Geoffroy, searcher in psychology to the university of Montreal and coauteure of the survey. The hiatuses observed young at the children descended of underprivileged families could harm to their school success later, believes the searcher.

” These results encourage us to incite the families more deprived to use the services on duty offered in their community, since they constitute a means to avoid the problems of language”, specify the searcher.

The quality of the different surroundings has not been valued on duty during the survey. The socioeconomic level of the children has been determined according to the degree of education and the use occupied by the parents as well as the domestic income.

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