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Premature babies need help at school
14 May 2009
The results come from the EPI-Cure study, led by researchers from the University of Nottingham and funded by the Medical Research Council. It is an ongoing research project established in 1995 to determine the chances of survival and health of babies born extremely prematurely.
The study found that compared with children carried to full term, extremely premature children scored significantly lower on IQ tests and core subjects, with one in three finding reading difficult and almost half struggling with mathematics.
In Sir Jim Rose's Primary Review last year he recommended that premature children start school a year later.
The latest research was done in collaboration with the University of Warwick and published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood Foetal and Neonatal Edition last week.
(Nursery World, 14 May 2009)
