title: Information from birth certificates as a risk index for educational handicap.
abstract: Information from birth certificates (including race, birth order and weight, and maternal age and education) was used to develop a set of classification equations to predict the educational status of first-grade children. The equations were developed with one-half of the sample and then applied to the other half in a replication test. The equations accurately identified approximately 80 percent of the children who scored 1 standard deviation or more below the mean on both a measure of intellectual competence and a measure of adaptive behavior. The usefulness of birth certificates as a first-line screening method was discussed.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001719:Birth Certificates; D001722:Birth Order; D001724:Birth Weight; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008423:Maternal Age; D012306:Risk; D012931:Social Environment