Nicholas Kristof quotes Childrens Health Fund co-founder & president Irwin Redlener, MD in his latest column. “ Poor kids are already at a disadvantage, ” Dr. Redlener said. Add chronic, untreated ear infections and you have extreme risk of insufficient language development — inevitably leading to increased rates of learning challenges and school failure. Dr. Redlener says that all young children should have a primary care physician who screens them for eight barriers to learning: vision problems, hearing deficits, undertreated asthma, anemia, dental pain, hunger, lead exposure and behavioral problems.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 00:52:13 +0000
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