In the preterm sample, performance on the SFM task was negatively correlated with AQ total scores (see Figure 3, Panel A) and scores on the Communication subscale.
Conclusion: Although preterm children performed less well in school than term children, family factors were stronger predictors of school performance than were perinatal complications.
Objective: To assess whether an oral stimulation program, before the introduction of oral feeding, enhances the oral feeding performance of preterm infants born between 26 and 29 weeks' gestational age.
To assess if sensory-motor-oral stimulation and non-nutritive sucking gavage feeding enhances the oral feeding performance of preterm infants born between 26 and 32 weeks of gestational age.
To assess the effects of different nasal continuous positive airway pressure (nCPAP) pressures on cardiac performance in preterm infants with minimal lung disease, we conducted a randomized, blinded crossover study.
Experts attribute this to the state's maternal quality care collaborative, a network of hospitals and public health agencies that share real-time data in the hopes of improving performance on preterm births, cesarean sections and other factors that can complicate a woman's care.
The results of this randomised control trial (RCT) did not show any difference in the incidence of CP, but did demonstrate improved cognitive performance in preterm girls (but not boys), and in infants with birth weight less than 1250g in unadjusted analyses.
At this point, we cannot rule out that problems with figure-ground segregation may have contributed to preterm children's poor performance on the SFM task, especially given previous reports of impairments in this ability in this population (Amicuzii et al., 2006; Davis, Burns, Wilkerson, & Steichen, 2005; Hård et al., 2000).
To explore the relationship between abnormalities detected in neonatal cranial ultrasound scans and task performance, we subdivided preterm children into three groups.
Independent-samples t-tests found significantly poorer performance by children born preterm on all measures, and a confirmatory factor analysis found preterm birth to be significantly related to each of the cognitive domains.
Importantly, this indicates the difficulty in generalizing results obtained from specific cohorts of preterm children and hence motivates the performance of follow-up studies of preterm children from different settings.
