Enhancing the Development of Low-Birthweight, Premature Infants: Changes in Cognition and Behavior over the First Three Years.

Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ467441

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Publication Date: 1993

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Enhancing the Development of Low-Birthweight, Premature Infants: Changes in Cognition and Behavior over the First Three Years.

Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne; And Others

Child Development, v64 n3 p736-53 Jun 1993

Compared low-birthweight infants who participated in an intervention involving educational and family support services during the first three years of life with low-birthweight infants who received pediatric follow-up. Intervention group infants scored higher on cognitive tests and lower on measures of behavior problems at 24 and 36 months than did infants in the follow-up group. (BC)

Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Birth Weight, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Early Intervention, Longitudinal Studies, Pediatrics, Program Effectiveness, Young Children

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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