Babies who are small at birth (low birth-weight infants or LBW infants) are at risk for future developmental problems. These infants can be difficult to parent because they appear to be relatively unresponsive to their parents. An intervention program was designed to make mothers more aware of their infant's signals and more responsive to their infants. Researchers expect that the intervention program will decrease some of the developmental issues associated with LBW. Forty-one LBW infants born at Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas between January 2010 and March 2011 were randomly assigned to either the experimental (mother's received intervention training; n = 18) or the control group (n = 23). At 24 months of age, each infant was administered the Bayley Mental Development Index (MDI). The MDI provides a measure of development where higher scores indicate greater developmental progress. Do the data suggest that the intervention

Babies who are small at birth (low birth-weight infants or LBW infants) are at risk for future developmental problems. These infants can be difficult to parent because they appear to be relatively unresponsive to their parents. An intervention program was designed to make mothers more aware of their infant's signals and more responsive to their infants. Researchers expect that the intervention program will decrease some of the developmental issues associated with LBW. Forty-one LBW infants born at Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas between January 2010 and March 2011 were randomly assigned to either the experimental (mother's received intervention training; n = 18) or the control group (n = 23). At 24 months of age, each infant was administered the Bayley Mental Development Index (MDI). The MDI provides a measure of development where higher scores indicate greater developmental progress. Do the data suggest that the intervention

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