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

Abstract

Preterm children (born r-values varied between 0.29 and 0.43, p p p < 0.001). Findings provide support for the continuum between very early language development and later language ability, in the domain of literacy skills in preterm children.

Keywords

• early language development
• literacy skills
• very preterm
• very low birth weight
• prematurely born children
• longitudinal follow-up