Multilingualism was associated with lower cognitive outcomes in children who were born very and extremely preterm.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

This study determined whether cognitive outcomes differed between very preterm (VPT) and extremely preterm (EPT) children who were monolingual or multilingual when they reached the corrected ages of two and five years.

Methods

The data were collected at the Emma Children's Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, as part of our national neonatal follow-up programme and comprised 325 VPT/EPT children born between January 1, 2007 and January 1, 2012. The study used the Third Editions of the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development and the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence.

Results

We compared 234 monolingual children, 65 multilingual children who spoke Dutch and at least one foreign language at home and 26 multilingual children who didn't spea

SUBMITTER: van Veen S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6585714 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature