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01/28/2013
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Childhood education helps improve children's intelligence, study finds Photo: Fabio Rossi / 11.11.2003
RIO-introduce fish oil in the diet of children, enroll them in preschool quality and encourage them to read are an effective way to increase your child's intelligence, according to a new scientific paper published in the journal "Perspectives on Psychological Science ".
Using a technique called meta-analysis, a team led by John Protzko, a doctoral candidate at Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, University of New York, combined information from existing studies to assess the overall effectiveness of each type of intervention child everyday.
"Our goal is to create a database to learn what works and what does not to improve people's intelligence. For a long time, scientific discoveries were mismatched and in journals espalhads "said Protzko.
All studies collected in the database fall into a normal population - without a diagnosis of intellectual disabilities - and are focused on interventions that can persist over time, using different measures for intelligence and, most importantly, they are randomly controlled trials, ie, whose participants are randomized to receive either intervention in everyday life.
Increasing the consumption of polyunsaturated fatty acids and omega-3 rich foods, either in pregnant women and in newborns, for example, can increase the IQ of children up to 3.5 points, according to an analysis of U.S. researchers.
Enrolling poor children in preschools was considered an intervention that can increase IQ by more than 4 points. The researchers believe that early childhood education can help increase a child's IQ because the school is an environment where it is exposed to more complex tasks and stimulants in cognitive terms. It is unclear, however, whether the same results can be achieved in children from different socioeconomic groups.
Already interactive reading - which consists of parents in encouraging their children to read a book while foleiam - can increase IQ by up to six points. These interventions do not seem to have an effect on children older than 4 years, suggesting that the reading incentive is effective for language development.
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Source: Extra - Online
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