Deepa Fernandes|USC researchers find the risk for autism is heightened when children who have a certain gene mutation are exposed to high levels of pollution.
Researchers found that children exposed to poverty from an early age had smaller “brain volumes” in the regions of the brain that process emotions and memory.
Until now, the district offered no pre-kindergarten classes in Glassell Park, which is majority Latino and low-income. Parents pay $2 to $17.75 a day, based on income.
Stanford researchers found the language gap between children of low socio-economic groups and their more well-to-do peers begins as young as 18 months old.
