Adoption is a successful natural intervention enhancing adopted children's IQ and school performance

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 326-330

  Van IJzendoorn, Marinus H ^a,b   Juffer, Femmie ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adoption; IQ; Language; Meta analysis; School achievement; Special education

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747051462     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0963-7214.2005.00391.x     Document Type: Review

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