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Language development at 3 years in pre‐term children of birth weight below 1000 g
Author(s) -
Grunau Ruth V. E.,
Kearney Sheila M.,
Whitfield Michael F.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
international journal of language and communication disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.101
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1460-6984
pISSN - 1368-2822
DOI - 10.3109/13682829009011972
Subject(s) - psychology , language development , term (time) , developmental psychology , language disorder , birth weight , linguistics , pediatrics , medicine , psychiatry , pregnancy , cognition , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , biology , genetics
Language development at 3 years of pre‐term children born below 1000 g birth weight was compared with full‐term controls matched for social background. The pre‐term group used less complex expressive language and showed lower receptive understanding, auditory memory and verbal reasoning. Language outcome was related to intraventricular haemorrhage but not to global indication of postnatal illness such as number of days on the ventilator. Average verbal intelligence in environmentally low risk, extremely low birth weight children is an insufficient indicator of complex language functioning.