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Comparison of immigrant children in four nations shows strengths, lags

September 11, 2012 by

Young children whose families immigrate to Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States are as prepared and capable of starting school as their native-born counterparts, with one exception -- vocabulary and language development. That's the finding of a new study that uses longitudinal data sets from the four countries to look at 40,000 children born between 2000 and 2003.

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