Socially handicapped children.
There is general agreement that adverse environmental circumstances have a stunting effect on child development, even if account is taken of a possible genetic component in the variation of intelligence. A short account of relevant investigations is followed by a summary of some aspects of an interdisciplinary study recently completed by the authors which included interviews with parents as well as psychological tests and ratings on their children in school.
D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D004493:Education; D006128:Growth; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D012931:Social Environment