Specific language and reading skills in school-aged children and adolescents are associated with prematurity after controlling for IQ

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 906-913

  Lee, Eliana S ^a   Yeatman, Jason D ^b   Luna, Beatriz ^c   Feldman, Heidi M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Language; Linguistic processing speed; Prematurity; Preterm; Processing efficiency; Reading; Syntactic comprehension; Verbal memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREMATURITY; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; PREMATURE BIRTH; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 79954426392     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.12.038     Document Type: Article

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