{"id":2589,"date":"2013-02-04T19:11:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T19:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.speechbuddy.com\/blog\/?p=2589"},"modified":"2016-01-26T14:53:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T22:53:07","slug":"little-einsteins-three-easy-things-parents-can-do-to-boost-childrens-iq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.speechbuddy.com\/blog\/language-development\/little-einsteins-three-easy-things-parents-can-do-to-boost-childrens-iq\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Einsteins \u2013 Three Easy Things Parents Can Do To Boost Children\u2019s IQ"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forget the toys and gimmicks that promise to make your baby smarter, research published in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science<\/em> s<\/em>how three key things you could do to raise your child\u2019s IQ. Part of being a profession that provides speech therapy<\/a> services is knowing what factors influence a child\u2019s cognitive and emotional development. This study highlights essential elements for cognitive and language growth in a child’s early, critical years.<\/p>\n

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Turns out the three things that could boost IQ are pretty easy to achieve and you might even already be doing them! In the study, led by researcher <\/em>John Protzko, at NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, combined the findings from existing studies using children from birth to kindergarten to evaluate the overall effectiveness of each type of intervention. Finding that results are often scattered (you know, a news headline there, a new must have vitamin there), he and other researchers wanted to create a \u201cDatabase of Raising Intelligence.\u201d Here\u2019s the three things he found:<\/p>\n

Fish Oil:<\/strong> Supplementing pregnant women and newborns diet\u2019s with foods rich in Omega-3,<\/a> were found to boost children’s IQ by more than 3.5 points! According to the authors, Omega-3s are rich fatty acids, which provide the building blocks for nerve cell development.<\/p>\n

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Preschool: <\/strong>For an economically disadvantaged child, there is no substitute for education. For these children, early education intervention<\/a> was found to raise his or her IQ by more than four points; a center-based education component raised a child’s IQ by more than seven points. This comes as no surprise to us in the education field, who know that early education provides stimulation and language modeling in addition to early pre-reading skills. Interestingly, timing isn\u2019t everything. The authors found that early education interventions that take place earlier in childhood were not more effective than those that begin later.<\/p>\n

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Reading<\/strong>: Now this one is exciting for the speechies! Teaching parents to engage their children while reading with them were found to raise children’s IQ by over 6 points\u2014only for children under 4 years, however. Early, shared reading may accelerate language development, which, in turn, boosts IQ. Look here for a list of great preschool books<\/a>.<\/p>\n