Prematurity may negatively impact means-end problem solving across the first two years of life.
Preterm infants are at risk for delays in motor, perceptual, and cognitive development. While research has shown preterm infants may exhibit learning delays in the first months of life, these delays are commonly under-diagnosed. The purpose of this study was to longitudinally evaluate behavioral per...
| Publicado en: | Research in Developmental Disabilities Vol. 81; pp. 24 - 37 |
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Pergamon Press - An Imprint of Elsevier Science
Oct2018
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