premature infants
Helping Low Birth Weight, Premature Babies: The Infant Health and Development Program
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Each year in the United States, 250,000 infants are born too soon, weighing too little. For these low birth weight, premature infants, the future is uncertain, since they are at risk for a variety of serious medical and developmental problems—including behavioral and learning disorders that may have damaging effects for the rest of their lives. The extent to which a comprehensive early intervention program could improve or prevent these adverse outcomes was examin… More >>
Helping Low Birth Weight, Premature Babies: The Infant Health and Development Program
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Nurturing the Premature Infant: Developmental Intervention in the Neonatal Intensive Care Nursery
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As more premature infants survive the immediate neonatal period and require prolonged periods of hospitalization, researchers in fetal development and infancy have begun to reassess the strategies for their care. In the past, the focus of neonatal intensive care was to sustain life, with little attention to the quality and implications of survival. Today, however, researchers and clinicians are seeking to enhance the development of these small infants by amelioratin… More >>
Nurturing the Premature Infant: Developmental Intervention in the Neonatal Intensive Care Nursery
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