Cognitive status, language attainment, and prereading skills of 6-year-old very preterm children and their peers: The Bavarian Longitudinal Study

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 94-109

  Wolke, Dieter ^b   Meyer, Renate ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PREMATURITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION;

APTITUDE TESTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PEER GROUP; READING; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0033010441     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162299000201     Document Type: Article

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