Executive function assessment in New Zealand 2-year olds born at risk of neonatal hypoglycemia.

ABSTRACT: A growing number of babies are born with perinatal risk factors that may impair later development. These children are often assessed at 2 years to help predict outcome and direct support services. Executive function is an important predictor of academic achievement and behavior, but there are limited assessments of executive function in 2-year-olds and few have been tested in at-risk populations. Therefore, we developed a battery of four age-appropriate tasks to assess executive function in 2-year-olds. At 24 months' corrected age 368 children completed tasks assessing attention, inhibition, working memory and cognitive flexibility. Scores on different tasks were weakly correlated, suggesting that they measured separate aspects of executive function, with combined scores for this cohort ap

SUBMITTER: Ansell JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5699811 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature