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CHILDREN BORN AFTER ELECTIVE INDUCTION OF LABOUR
Author(s) -
Black B. P.,
McBride W. G.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1979.tb104157.x
Subject(s) - developmental psychology , neuroticism , psychology , reading (process) , audiology , comprehension , reading comprehension , medicine , personality , social psychology , linguistics , philosophy , political science , law
A comparison was made between the performance at eight years of age of 63 children who were born after elective induction of labour, and 29 spontaneously born children. The children had been tested previously at five years of age. Tests of reading and arithmetic achievement, visuomotor coordination, aural‐visual coordination, auditory discrimination, and behavioural rating scales were administered. On two of the 12 measures (reading comprehension and neuroticism) the induced children performed better than the spontaneously born. On all other measures there were no significant differences. There appeared to be no evidence of specific learning disabilities or behavioural problems among the induced children.