Predictors of language and reading outcomes in 12-year-old children born very preterm.

Aim: To investigate predictors of language and reading outcomes in 12-year-old Swedish children born very preterm (<32 gestational weeks) in 2004-2007.

Method: Children born very preterm (n = 78, 43 girls), and term-born controls (n = 50, 32 girls), were examined on verbal IQ, semantic and phonemic fluency, sentence recall, reading fluency, word and phonological decoding at 12 years of age. The results were related to neonatal characteristics, language development, measured with Bayley-III, at 2.

Mri findings, looking behaviour and affect recognition in very preterm children: A pilot study.

Children born very preterm often exhibit atypical gaze behaviors, affect recognition difficulties and are at risk for cerebral white matter damage. This study explored links between these sequalae. In 24 12-year-old children born very preterm, ventricle size using Evans and posterior ventricle indices, and corpus callosum area were used to measure white matter thickness.

Brain MRI findings and their association with visual impairment in young adolescents born very preterm.

Purpose: Very preterm birth increases risk for neonatal white matter injury, but there is limited data on to what extent this persists into adolescence and how this relates to ophthalmological outcomes. The aim of this study was to assess brain MRI findings in 12-year-old children born very preterm compared to controls and their association with concurrent ophthalmological outcomes.

Methods: We included 47 children born very preterm and 22 full-term controls (gestational age <32 and >37 weeks, respectively).

Different aspects of visual perception are important for 12-year social functioning depending on gestational age.

Aim: Perceptual mechanisms in social functioning might promote interventions. We investigated relations between visual perception and social functioning, in preterm children.

Methods: A prospective preterm cohort born in Uppsala County, Sweden, in 2004-2007 and 49 full-term controls were examined at 12 years.

Predictive value of Bayley-III Motor Index for later motor difficulties in children born extremely preterm.

Aim: To investigate the predictive ability of the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, Third Edition (Bayley-III) Motor Index, in children born extremely preterm (<27 gestational weeks) without cerebral palsy.

Methods: Children from the EXPRESS study (all extremely preterm births in Sweden, 2004-2007) without neurosensory impairments assessed with Bayley-III at 2.5 years corrected age and Movement Assessment Battery for Children, Second Edition (MABC-2), at 6.

Antenatal steroids and neurodevelopment in 12-year-old children born extremely preterm.

Aim: To investigate neurodevelopmental outcome in 12-year-old children born very preterm in relation to perinatal, neonatal and socioeconomic variables. To examine whether previously described positive effects of antenatal steroids on cognition persist at 12 years.

Methods: Prospective cohort, 78 children with gestational ages 22.

Early access to physiotherapy for infants with cerebral palsy: A retrospective chart review.

Aim: This study aimed to investigate whether children with cerebral palsy (CP) had equal access to timely physiotherapy. Additionally, to learn more about clinical characteristics of infants with CP, we explored differences in neonatal clinical history and CP profile between children referred by a neonatologist or enrolled in neonatal follow-up and those referred by other healthcare professionals as well as those referred before and after 5 months corrected age.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective chart review study including children born in Uppsala County, Sweden, from 2010 to 2016, who had received a CP diagnosis by July 2019.

Using different definitions affected the reported prevalence of neurodevelopmental impairment in children born very preterm.

Aim: We investigated the impact of varying definitions on the prevalence of neurodevelopmental impairment (NDI) in children born very preterm at 6.5 years of age.

Methods: Cognitive development and neurosensory impairments were assessed in 91 children (40/51 girls/boys) born <32 gestational weeks, in 2004-2007 in Uppsala county, Sweden.

Structured Observation of Motor Performance in Infants: Level and quality associated with later motor development.

Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the level of motor development and the quality of motor performance during the first 10 months in relation to the Bayley Scales of Infant Development-third edition (Bayley-III) motor index at 2.5 years.

Methods: Children born very preterm from a population-based study (n = 113) were assessed with the Structured Observation of Motor Performance in Infants (SOMP-I) at 2, 4, 6 and 10 months corrected age and the Bayley-III motor index at 2.

The Structured Observation of Motor Performance in Infants can detect cerebral palsy early in neonatal intensive care recipients.

Background: The detection of motor problems in infancy requires a detailed assessment method that measures both the infants' level of motor development and movement quality.

Aims: To evaluate the ability of the Structured Observation of Motor Performance in Infants (SOMP-I) to detect cerebral palsy (CP) in neonatal intensive care recipients.

Study Design: Prospective cohort study analyzed retrospectively.

The Structured Observation of Motor Performance in Infants has convergent and discriminant validity in preterm and term infants.

Aim: Methods are needed to evaluate the level of early motor development and quality of motor performance in infants. We examined the convergent and discriminant validity of the Structured Observation of Motor Performance in Infants (SOMP-I) for evaluating the level of motor development and quality of motor performance in preterm and term infants.

Methods: A regional cohort of 111 preterm infants with a gestational age of <32 weeks and 72 healthy term born infants were assessed with the SOMP-I, at two, four, six and 10 months of corrected age.