Extremely Low Birth Weight Children and Their Peers: A Comparison of Preschool Performance

Low birth weight seems to be a major risk factor for developmental disability. Up to 25 per cent of children with birth weights less than 1500 gm will have developmental disabilities. Estimates in extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants (less than 1000 gm) predict that up to 60 per cent will have some sort of problem in school. This study was designed to prospectively document the developmental outcomes of a cohort of white, middle-class...