Predictors of language and reading outcomes in 12-year-old children born very preterm.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To investigate predictors of language and reading outcomes in 12-year-old Swedish children born very preterm (<32 gestational weeks) in 2004-2007.

Method

Children born very preterm (n = 78, 43 girls), and term-born controls (n = 50, 32 girls), were examined on verbal IQ, semantic and phonemic fluency, sentence recall, reading fluency, word and phonological decoding at 12 years of age. The results were related to neonatal characteristics, language development, measured with Bayley-III, at 2.5 years corrected age, and concurrent non-verbal IQ.

Results

Preterm children showed language and reading difficulties that were not completely accounted for by level of concurrent non-verbal IQ. Extremely preterm born children (<28 gestational weeks) demonstrated specific lingu

SUBMITTER: Hedenius M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11627455 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature