title: Cognitive and academic functioning in foster children.
abstract: A study of the cognitive and academic skills of an agency's foster children indicated that the general level of functioning was similar to that of low-income and minority children living with their own families.
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002669:Child Welfare; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D005581:Foster Home Care / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male