Intellectual Delay (effects of institutionalisation)

When they first arrived in the UK, ____ of the Romanian adoptees _________ of intellectual delay

Half

Showed signs

However, by the age of __, most of the Romanian children adopted _______________ had caught up with with their British counterparts

4

Before the age of six months

At age 11, the mean IQ of those children adopted before the age of…

6 months was 102

Compared with __ for those adopted between six months and two years and __ from those adopted after two years

86

77

It appears that damage to intellectual development as a…

Result of institutionalisation can be recovered

This is provided adoption takes place before the age of…

Six months - the age at which attachments form