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NCEDL Spotlights 16

National Center for Early Development and Learning
November
1999
Depressed Moms & Child Development

Children of depressed mothers performed more poorly on measures of school readiness, verbal comprehension, and expressive language skills at 36 months of age than children of mothers who never reported depression, according to new data from a continuing study by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.