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ERIC Number: EJ373539
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1988
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Children Who Were Very Low Birthweight: Cognitive Abilities and Classroom Behavior at Five Years of Age.
Klein, Nancy K.
Journal of Special Education, v22 n1 p41-54 Spr 1988
Sixty-two very low-birthweight children were evaluated at five years of age on cognitive abilities and visual motor integration. The subjects, enrolled in regular classrooms, scored lower than controls on measures of visual perceptual/visual motor function and had more problems including attending to tasks, following directions, and passivity. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Birth Weight, Child Development, Cognitive Ability, Followup Studies, Mainstreaming, Perceptual Handicaps, Perceptual Motor Coordination, Premature Infants, Preschool Education, Psychomotor Skills, Student Behavior, Visual Perception
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Passivity
Note: Special Issue: Early Intervention for Infants with Handicaps and Their Families.