Show significance in period of childs first steps there are no s gns agns of superiority in children who take their first steps before they reach fifteen months according to a study made at the varsity of pennsylvania but those children chil dien long retarded in walking especially after reaching the fifteen month 1 briod which Is con the average to begin walking are significantly inferior as a rule the results of the study suggest conducted by dr miles murphy assistant professor of psychology the study is based on the records of brought 0 o the psychological clinic during a period of five years of these a total of had been dl di as normal by psychological examiners and the remainder as fee ble minded the records show that of the nor mal children tor for whom the average age of walking was 14 99 months approximately 20 per cent started to walk before they were one year of ige approximately 60 per cent between twelve and seventeen months and the remaining 20 per cent at eighteen months or later |