Early educational attainment in children with major congenital anomaly in the UK
CONCLUSIONS: These novel results demonstrate that poor educational attainment extends to children with urinary, limb and gastrointestinal CAs. We demonstrate the need for collaboration between health and education services to assess and support children with major CA, so every CA survivor can maximise their potential. Arch Dis Child. 2024 Mar 19;109(4):326-333. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2023-326471. ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: […]
Educational attainment of children with congenital heart disease in the United Kingdom
CONCLUSION: Children with CHD have lower educational attainment compared with their peers. Deficits are evident from school entry and increase throughout primary school. Eur Heart J Qual Care Clin Outcomes. 2024 Aug 8;10(5):456-466. doi: 10.1093/ehjqcco/qcad068. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Educational attainment in children with congenital heart disease (CHD) within the UK has not been reported, despite the […]
Potential for England’s statutory school entry assessment to identify special educational needs and reveal structural inequalities: a population-based study
CONCLUSIONS: School readiness assessments are associated with later SEN identification. Structural inequalities may exist in SEN identification in children not entering formal education ‘school ready’. Such assessments could facilitate earlier identification of SEN and reduce structural inequalities in its identification. Arch Dis Child. 2023 Dec 14;109(1):52-57. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2023-325590. ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: To investigate at a population […]
Clustering of adverse health and educational outcomes in adolescence following early childhood disadvantage: population-based retrospective UK cohort study
BACKGROUND: Disadvantage in early childhood (ages 0-5 years) is associated with worse health and educational outcomes in adolescence. Evidence on the clustering of these adverse outcomes by household income is scarce in the generation of adolescents born since the turn of the millennium. We aimed to describe the association between household income in early childhood […]
Vulnerabilities in child well-being among primary school children: a cross-sectional study in Bradford, UK
CONCLUSIONS: Although most primary school children aged 7-10 in our study had good levels of well-being on most indicators across multiple domains, fewer than 10% had no vulnerabilities at all, a worrying 10% had at least one vulnerability in all the four domains we studied and two-thirds had vulnerabilities of particular concern during the COVID-19 […]
Sensorimotor ability and inhibitory control independently predict attainment in mathematics in children and adolescents
We previously linked interceptive timing performance to mathematics attainment in 5- to 11-yr-old children, which we attributed to the neural overlap between spatiotemporal and numerical operations. This explanation implies that the relationship should persist through the teenage years. Here, we replicated this finding in adolescents (n = 200, 11-15 yr). However, an alternative explanation is […]
Urban environment and cognitive and motor function in children from four European birth cohorts
BACKGROUND: The urban environment may influence neurodevelopment from conception onwards, but there is no evaluation of the impact of multiple groups of exposures simultaneously. We investigated the association between early-life urban environment and cognitive and motor function in children. Environ Int. 2022 Jan;158:106933. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2021.106933. Epub 2021 Oct 15. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: The urban environment may […]