Children with a very low birthweight showed poorer reading skills at eight years of age but caught up in most areas by the age of 10

We evaluated the development of reading skills in very low birthweight (VLBW) children and controls at 8-10 years of age.This study was part of a longitudinal study of VLBW infants born between January 1998 and December 1999 in Sweden. We recruited 49 VLBW children and 44 sex and age-matched full-term controls when they started school at the age of seven and tested them using identical methods for decoding, rapid naming ability, reading...