Papers and Presentations
Dr. Patricia Canning, professor of education and psychology, and
co-director of Memorial’s site of the Centre of Excellence
for Children and Adolescents with Special Needs; Dr. Mary Courage,
professor of psychology with a cross-appointment to the Faculty of
Medicine (pediatrics); and associate dean of science (research),
and co-director of the Centre of Excellence; and Lynn Frizzell,
research co-ordinator with the Centre of Excellence, recently
published the results of a study of the provincial
government’s Mother Baby Nutrition Supplement program in the
journal Child: Care, Health and Development. The study found that
participants in the program had better birth outcomes than may be
expected in women considered at risk. Women who enrolled earlier,
despite increased risk due to lower income, age and education,
single status and first pregnancy, had rates of full-term Low Birth
Weight (LBW) on par with that of all mothers in the province and
Canada. The article can be viewed online at
www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/123227408/HTMLSTART.
