Teenage motherhood: Its relationship to undetected learning problems.
This study describes characteristics of a group of 64 adolescent mothers and their infants who participated in a program for teenage mothers run by a local health department. A majority of the girls for whom California Achievement Test (CAT) scores were available scored one or more years below grade...
| Publicado en: | Adolescence Vol. 29; no. 113; pp. 91 - 92 |
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| Formato: | research Journal Article |
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Libra Publishers Inc.
Spring94
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