Interventions in children’s developmental milestones must be monitored‚ experts say

08 June 2016 - 16:09
By Roxanne Henderson

If a quarter of SA's toddlers‚ aged three to four‚ are failing to meet developmental milestones‚ what kind of citizens are we raising?Experts say it all depends on the interventions implemented along the way.New research published on Tuesday by Harvard University's TH Chan School of Public Health estimates that a third of toddlers between the ages of three and four in low- and middle-income countries fail to reach their development milestones.

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