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Peer reviewedRuff, Holly A.; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Compares the manipulative exploration of objects of 30 nine-month-old preterm infants with that of 20 nine-month-old full-term infants. Although no difference between the preterms and the full terms was noted, a high-risk preterm subgroup manipulated objects less. A relationship was found between manipulative exploration at nine months and later…
Descriptors: Birth Weight, Cognitive Development, Exploratory Behavior, High Risk Persons
