Eveliina Joensuu|Petriina Munck|Sirkku Setänen|Jari Lipsanen|Mira Huhtala|Helena Lapinleimu|Suvi Stolt
Associations between Language at 2 Years and Literacy Skills at 7 Years in Preterm Children Born at Very Early Gestational Age and/or with Very Low Birth Weight
University of Helsinki|University of Helsinki|Turku University Hospital|University of Turku|University of Helsinki|Turku University Hospital|Turku University Hospital|University of Turku|University of Helsinki
preterm children born lt37 gestational weeks born early gestational age lt32 weeks preterm vp andor low birth weight 1500 g vlbw increased risk language literacy deficits continuum early language development literacy skills among children clear objective investigate associations language development 2 years corrected age literacy skills 7 years vpvlbw children participants 136 vpvlbw children 137 term controls 6year regional population cohort children living finnishspeaking families 2 years corrected age language lexical development utterance length assessed using finnish version macarthurbates communicative development inventory expressive language scale bayley scales infant development second edition 7 years childrens literacy skills prereading skills reading writing evaluated statistically significant correlations found groups language development 2 years literacy skills 7 years rvalues varied 029 043 p lt 001 vpvlbw group 33 74 children early weak language development weak literacy skills 7 years relative advanced early language skills 11 44 p lt 0001 0047 language development 2 years explained 14 28 variance literacy skills 5 years later language development 2 years fair predictive value literacy skills 7 years vpvlbw group area receiver operating characteristic roc curve auc values varied 070 077 p lt 0001 findings provide support continuum early language development later language ability domain literacy skills preterm children