Show significance in period of childs first steps there are no signs of superiority in children who take their first steps before they reach fifteen mouths month according to a study made at the university of pennsylvania but those child children ven long retarded in walking especially after reaching the fifteen fl f teen month period which Is considered 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 an the life records of children brought to the psychological clinic during a period of 0 five years of these a total of had been diagnosed as normal by psychological examiners and the remainder as fee ble minded the records show that of the normal in al children for whom the average age of walking was 1499 1409 months approximately proximately ay 20 per cent started to walk before they were one year of ige approximately GO 60 per cent between twelve and seventeen months and the remaining 20 per cent at eighteen months or later |