Follow-up of twins: Health, behaviour, speech, language outcomes and implications for parents

Early Human Development

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 379-386

  Sutcliffe, Alastair G ^a   Derom, Catherine ^b  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cerebral palsy; Development; Long term; Twins

Indexed keywords

CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FETUS MORTALITY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INFANT MORTALITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL WELFARE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MORBIDITY; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREMATURITY; REVIEW; TWINS; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; INFANT, NEWBORN; LANGUAGE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; SPEECH; TWINS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33744742306     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2006.03.007     Document Type: Review

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