For infants and toddlers living in rural areas, being randomized to
receive the BDH program in very early childhood was associated with
a significantly greater number of spoken words in infants and
toddlers and a greater probability that a child was combining words;
there were no significant effects on language for children in urban
areas. Compared with children in control areas, rural children in
treatment areas were more likely to have received vitamin A or iron
supplementation in the past six months and more likely to have been