The percentage of young inner-city students who have difficulty paying attention at school and struggle with basic literacy skills was three times higher for children who also were victims of abuse, neglect and other trauma, according to a new study featured in a medical journal by several New Jersey researchers.
Research has already shown abused and traumatized children are more likely to suffer from health problems. Less clear is how these traumatic experiences interfere with their success in the classroom, said Manuel Jimenez, assistant professor of pediatrics, family medicine and community health at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and a developmental pediatrician at Children's Specialized Hospital in New Brunswick who led the study.
[For more of this story, written by Susan K. Livio, go to http://www.nj.com/healthfit/in...rs_in_school_st.html]
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