«By simply teaching caregivers age - appropriate activities to foster child development, we found that early intervention can help children from low - resource families
catch up with their peers from high - resource families,» said Carla Bann, Ph.D., statistics and psychometrics fellow at RTI and lead author of the study.
For lots of youngsters, the start of school feels like a fresh new beginning, yet many
from low - income households begin the year already playing
catch -
up with their more affluent
peers.