Pediatric clinicians are on the front line for prevention of language and speech disorders.
This review uses prevailing theories and recent data to justify strategies for prevention …

Predicting language performances after preterm birth is challenging. It is described in the
literature that early exposure to the extrauterine environment can be either detrimental or …

An intrinsic feature of the developing brain is high susceptibility to environmental influence—
known as plasticity. Research indicates cascading disruption to neurological development …

Introduction There is evidence to support the use of positive sensory exposures (music,
touch, skin-to-skin) with preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), but …

Background: Prematurity accounts for about 10.6% of neonates worldwide and tends to
increase as does survival from lower gestational ages. Summary: The importance of preterm …

Bilirubin-induced brain injury in the neonatal period has detrimental effects on
neurodevelopment that persist into childhood and adulthood, contributing to childhood …

Purpose Language skills are critical. Children born very preterm are vulnerable to language
problems, but further work is needed to determine characteristics and specific predictors of …

Children born preterm are at higher risk to develop language deficits. Auditory speech
discrimination deficits may be early signs for language developmental problems. The …

Background Children born preterm are at risk for developing reading difficulties and for
decrements in other cognitive skills compared to children born at term. Aims To assess how …

Background Clinical data offer the potential to advance patient care. Neonatal specialised
care is a high-cost NHS service received by approximately 80,000 newborn infants each …