Effect of 0～2 - year old infants' early edacation in a community in Beijing Beijing

Abstract：Objective To study the effect of early education on intellectualdevelopment of infants in urban community. Methods 77 normal newborn infants born in Fangzhuang community form June 1997 to Jan. 1998 were set as early educational group, 94 healthy included in the control group. Their parents were taught to carry out the early educational program beginning from newborn period, which included motion, cognition, speech development and social behavior. At the age of two, all infants in the two groups received infant development test of Child Development Centre of China(CDCC). Results There was no significant difference in physical development and cultural and social factors among the two groups. Intelligance tests showed that the average mental development index(MDI)and psychomotive development index (PDI) in the early educational group were 14.4 and 23.7 higher than those in the control group, respectively. The difference was significant. 50 infants(64.9 % ) in the early educational group showed MDI≥ 120 (excellent and superexcellent), while 5 in the control group. Conclusions Early education beginning from newborn infants is effective and fertile in urban community.