The essence of this study is to determine the consequences that are faced developmentally in children that are exposed to maltreatment during early development. Data will be collected from a Longitudinal Study that will be conducted. The participants of the study will be randomly chosen from numerous settings in the state of Philadelphia which will include those in public and private schools, day care and nursery programs, child welfare abuse and protective service programs as well as Head start classrooms. The participants will complete three tests at different stages of the research study. The first test will be distributed when the children were at the preschool age which ranges from 18 months to 6 years old. The second test would assess
