Perfil Cognitivo e Motor de Crianças Nascidas Prematuras em Idade Escolar:

Objective. Describe the cognitive and motor profile in premature children at school age in order to detail their clinical prognosis. Method. A bibliography review was realized by search on scientific articles on database of Lilacs, EMBASE, Cochrane, Scielo, Medline, Pubmed and researches in virtual library at Sao Paulo University – USP and Campinas State University – UNICAMP Scielo, Medline and Pubmed sites from the last 10 years. It was considered scientific and academic relevance according to the objective proposed in our study. It was excluded those with no academic relevance, and outside the context of the objective cited. Results. It was found 30 scientific articles, excluding 17 who didn’t meet the proposed objective, with a total of 13 studies. It was observed that premature children when compared with term children, present relevant delayed cognitive and motor development, contributing to academic failure. Conclusion. Premature children show lower scores on cognitive and motor tasks as compared to children born at term.