Premature Babies Have High Chance of Learning Disabilites
A study by Doctors around the UK have found that 80% of severely premature babies develop some form of education or development disabilities such as severe cerebral palsy, learning difficulties, below-average intelligence and problems with vision or hearing.
The study is part of the EPICure project which is a longitudinal study on children born in 1995. At age 6, the found that some 72% of had impaired intelligence, compared with 14% of their classmates. These results were published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
These results were first reported on the BBC Panorama programe in September and at the time generate some news coverage.
It would be interesting to have these children assessed for retained primitive reflexes as I recall from the INPP training day Sally Goddard Blythe hypothesizing that the nature of the birth may effect the development of the reflexes.
Find Out More:
Books:
- The Well Balanced Child: Movement And Early Learning (Early Years)
- Primitive Reflexes
- Reflexes, Learning And Behavior: A Window into the Child’s Mind : A Non-Invasive Approach to Solving Learning & Behavior Problems
- Physical Activities for Improving Children’s Learning and Behavior
- Signs of Autism in Infants: Recognition and Early Intervention
January 6th, 2005
ADD / ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Science, Dyscalculia
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