Improving Early Childhood Development and Health with a Community-Run Program in Rural Ghana
@inproceedings{Krutikova2019ImprovingEC, title={Improving Early Childhood Development and Health with a Community-Run Program in Rural Ghana}, author={Sonya Krutikova and Sarah Cattan and Lina Cardona Sosa and Peter Leighton}, year={2019} }
The Lively Minds program increased children’s cognition, with significant improvements in emergent-numeracy, executive function, and fine motor skills. The effect of the program on the cognitive skills of children from the poorest 20 percent of households was twice as high as that of children from better-off households. There was also a significant improvement in the literacy skills of the disadvantaged children that was not observed for the rest. Children’s socio-emotional development…