Assessment of cognitive and perceptual functioning, personality, and neurological impairment was made of 235 7-yr.-olds. The sample was composed of 134 children who were normal full-term newborns and 101 children who were anoxic full-term newborns. The group represented 85.5% of the sample which had been followed up at 3 yr. of age. Anoxics did not differ signiheantly from normals in intelligence and signs of neurological impairment. The anoxic group did show impairment in the areas of verbal abstract ability, perceptual skills, and social competence. In general, the anoxics showed minimal impairment of functioning. Attempts to predict current functioning from newborn measures of severity of anoxia proved to be highly unreliable.

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