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Significant Adversity Impairs Development in the First Three Years

Graph displaying increase in number of children with developmental delays relative to a higher number of adversity risk factors

Children exposed to 5+ significant adversities in the first 3 years face a 76% likelihood of having one or more delays in their development. Learn more about childhood trauma’s impact at http://bit.ly/ik4yas and pass it on to observe National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day.

This entry was written by Northern Lakes CMH and posted on February 28, 2011 at 4:43 pm and filed under Children: Thriving in the Community. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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