Monitoring the development of babies' motor skills could help to identify children who will need help with their learning at nursery, new research suggests.
Youngsters who fail to reach key "milestones" are more likely to have learning and behaviour problems at the age of five, a study by the Institute of Education, University of London, found.
The researchers analysed the development of almost 15,000 UK children taking part in the Millennium Cohort Study.
They looked at assessments of youngsters "gross" motor skills, like crawling, as well as "fine" motor skills, like the ability to hold objects with their fingers at the age of nine months.
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