Case Study: The Milwaukee Project

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The Milwaukee Project is a study that was conducted in the 1960s in Milwaukee where there was a higher rate of Intellectual Disabilities. The participating families were economically disadvantaged and the parents had low IQs their selves. Researchers separated participating families into two groups; one that received interventions and the other did not. The families that were receiving interventions, received help getting the adults lives on track (paying for school or other trainings that lead to better jobs) and starting the kids out at an earlier stage in life by sending them to daycare. The children that received the interventions were more well rounded and had higher IQs than the other group did. The group that didn’t receive interventions

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