| Show significance in period of childs first steps there are no sl signs ns of superiority in children who take their first steps before they reach fifteen months according to a study made at the university of renn pennsylvania sylvania but those children long retarded in walking especially after reaching the clifteen month period which Is considered the average to begin walking are significantly interior inferior as a rule the results of the study suggest conducted by dr miles Al murphy urphy assistant professor of psychology the study is based ou on the records of children on b brought to the psychological clinic during a period of 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 children for whom the average age of walking was 1409 months approximately 20 per cent started to walk before they were one year of ige ge approximately CO 60 per cent between twelve and seventeen months and the remaining 20 per cent at eighteen months or later |
