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SEMINARS IN FETAL & NEONATAL MEDICINE
Volume 19, Issue 2, Pages 78-83Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.siny.2013.10.007
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Brain; Hearing loss; Language; Preterm infant; Very low birth weight infant
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Speech and language impairments of both simple and complex language functions are common among former preterm infants. Risk factors include lower gestational age and increasing illness severity including severe brain injury. Even in the absence of brain injury, however, altered brain maturation and vulnerability imposed by premature entrance to the extrauterine environment is associated with brain structural and microstructural changes. These alterations are associated with language impairments with lasting effects in childhood and adolescence and increased needs for speech therapy and education supports. Studies are needed to investigate language interventions which begin in the neonatal intensive care unit. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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