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THE COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT OF LOW‐BIRTHWEIGHT CHILDREN
Author(s) -
HolwerdaKuipers J.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1987.tb00214.x
Subject(s) - psychology , low birth weight , cognition , birth weight , pediatrics , intelligence quotient , cognitive development , developmental psychology , audiology , medicine , psychiatry , pregnancy , genetics , biology
The cognitive development of 30 preterm infants and 40 growth‐retarded infants was studied in comparison with 105 control children. Half of tire study group had a neurologically suspect/abnormal diagnosis at birth, while the other half was neurologically normal. IQ tests of the low‐birth weight group al age 4.5–6 yean showed no delay in comparison with the group that was born at term and on‐weight. Piagetian tests indicated an interaction effect in which the group which was bam at term, on‐weight and neurologically normal scored best. In the analysis of the whole cognitive battery, the neurologically suspect/abnormal group achieved significantly worse than the neurologically normal group.