The Results from the Carolina Abecedarian Project Suggest That Intensive

question 70

Multiple Choice

The results from the Carolina Abecedarian Project suggest that intensive interventions that provide cognitive stimulation and parental education

• A) can increase children's social skills, but not their cognitive skills.
• B) can prevent deterioration in intellectual skills that ordinarily occurs in economically deprived conditions.
• C) have short-term effects on academic achievement, but not longer-lasting effects past middle childhood.
• D) only be effective if the intervention begins in infancy.

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