Quality Preschool, Interactive Reading and Fish Oil Can Raise Child’s IQ
Enrolling children in quality preschool, engaging them in interactive reading with parents and supplementing their diets with fish oil are all effective ways to raise a young child's intelligence, according to a new report.
最新的科學研究發現，小孩的智商除了是父母的遺傳以外，後天也是可以作出影響的，而提高孩子智力最有效的三個方法分別是：報讀高水準的幼兒園、每天與孩子作互動式閱讀，和補充魚油！
source: First 5 LA
Enrolling children in quality preschool, engaging them in interactive reading with parents and supplementing their diets with fish oil are all effective ways to raise a young child's intelligence, according to a new report.
Using a technique called meta-analysis, a team led by John Protzko, a doctoral student at the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, combined the findings from existing studies to evaluate the overall effectiveness of each type of intervention.
Published in Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, the study found that sending a child to preschool was found to raise his or her IQ by more than four points, and preschools that include a language development component were found to boost IQ by more than seven points. The link between preschool and intelligence could be a function of increased exposure to language or the result of the overall cognitive complexity of the preschool environment.
In the NYU study, interventions focused on interactive reading - teaching parents how to engage their children while reading with them - were found to raise children's IQ by more than six points. These interventions do not seem to have an effect for children over 4 years old, suggesting that the interventions may accelerate language development which, in turn, boosts IQ.
The study also reported that having pregnant women and newborns take omega-3 fatty acid supplements boosted a child's IQ by almost four points. These essential fatty acids may help raise intelligence by providing the building blocks for nerve cell development that the body cannot produce on its own.
Enrolling an economically disadvantaged child into an early education intervention was found to raise his or her IQ by more than four points; interventions that specifically included a center-based education component raised a child's IQ by more than seven points.
"Our current findings strengthen earlier conclusions that complex environments build intelligence, but do cast doubt on others, including evidence that earlier interventions are always most effective," Protzko explained. "Overall, identifying the link between essential fatty acids and intelligence gives rise to tantalizing new questions for future research and we look forward to exploring this finding."