Behaviour and development in 24-month-old moderately preterm toddlers

Age correction in cognitive, linguistic, and motor domains for infants born preterm: an analysis of the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, Third Edition developmental patterns

“…23,25 CONCLUSION The developmental discontinuities revealed by our study indicate that the way in which the gestational age of infants born preterm is treated, when assessing their performance, should be reviewed. 23,25 CONCLUSION The developmental discontinuities revealed by our study indicate that the way in which the gestational age of infants born preterm is treated, when assessing their performance, should be reviewed.…”

“…25 Indeed, a difference was found for the expressive language but only when uncorrected age was used. Similar findings were obtained for language comprehension only.…”

“…22,25 It should be emphasized that we consider only infants in good health and that the motor development is widely influenced by postnatal growth (weight, brain size, and musculature characteristics). These results are not aligned with the most common position in the literature, which supports the use of the corrected age.…”

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“…In preschool, many activities are conducted on manual control, organization of stimuli, perception of relations, social interactions, etc. In fact, the basis for gross and fine motor skills and social and communicative relationships is established during preschool, where children considerably increase their motor repertoire and acquire models of movement coordination and of social and communicative interactions that are essential for their independence (8,11) . It should be considered that children learn through the interactions they establish with people, events, and objects and that time of exposure to directed and interactive activities favors global development and performance in language tasks (24) .…”

“…However, the nature of these deficits is not yet fully understood (11,12) considering the multiple variables involved as a result of pre-, peri-and post-natal intercurrences, GA, birth weight, intensive care management, socioeconomic and environmental factors, and the complex process subsequent to the maturational development of the infant's brain, interfering with the trajectory of typical development (3)(4)(5)13,14) . Child development is based on domains of functions related to motor, cognitive and linguistic aspects, influenced by biological, psychosocial and environmental factors (15) .…”