Social communication deficits following early-life deprivation and relation to psychopathology: a randomized clinical trial of foster care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children reared in institutions experience profound deprivation that is linked to impairments in social communication (SC). However, little is known about the long-term consequences of institutional rearing on SC through adolescence, and how SC deficits relate to broad-spectrum psychopathology. It is also unclear whether early removal from deprivation and placement into socially enriched environments remediates these difficulties.

Methods

Children reared in Romanian institutions from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project were randomly assigned to care as usual or foster care intervention in early childhood. An age- and sex-matched group of never-institutionalized children was also recruited. SC data from 208 children at age 8 and 129 children at 16 were collect

SUBMITTER: Wade M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7967662 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature