First language and communication development of preterm children

PÉREZ PEREIRA, M.; FERNÁNDEZ, P.; DÍAZ RODRÍGUEZ, C.; RESCHES, M.; GÓMEZ TAIBO, M.; PERALBO, M.

Montreal

Congreso; 12th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL); 2011

The aims of the study were: 1) to compare first linguistic and communicative development of preterm children to that of full term children, to investigate 2) possible relationships between biological antecedents and language development outcomes and 3) possible relationships between family and children´s characteristics and children´s language development.The present study was carried out with 150 preterm children, with gestational age under 37 weeks, and a control group of 49 full term children. Participants are studied at various time points of their development: when they are 15 days old, at 10 months, 22 months and 30 months of age (corrected age for premature children). In this presentation, data coming from the first 10 months of life (points 1 and 2) are shown. The NBAS was applied to the children when they were 15 days old, as well as a long interview to the mothers. The Galician version of the CDI inventories was applied when the children were 10 months of age, among other instruments.