Pre-Academic Skill Development in Children Who Were Full-Term Low-Birthweight Infants: Pilot Data

Abstract

This investigation finds a small sample ofchildren who were full-term low-birthweight infants to be at riskfor preacademic developmental difficulties during their preschool years. Abstract This investigation assessed pre-academic skill petformance in19 preschoolaged children with no significant disability who had been full-term lowbirthweight infants. Subjects were drawn from a 1988 cohort of intensivecare nursery graduates. Mean birthweight was 2239g, and mean gestational age was 36.7 weeks. The Miller Assessment for Preschoolers (MAP) was used to measure pre-academic skill development. The MAP scores include a total score and five index scores: foundations, coordination, verbal, nonverbal, and complex tasks. Percentile scores derived from MAP testing were

Postneonatal mental and motor development of infants exposed in utero to opioid drugs

“…The present study offers little toward an understanding of causal factors involved in growth retardation associated with prenatal opioid exposure. However, that growth retardation in utero would be related specifically to neuromotor findings is consistent with others studies of infants affected by intrauterine growth retardation (Tomchek, Lane, & Ottenbacher, 1997).…”