Poster workshop discussion
Chairs: Magda Kalm‡r and Judith M. Gardner
Discussant: Bernard Z. Karmel
Changing cohorts and advances in medical practices make the evaluation andfollow-up of high-risk infants a continuing research and clinical challenge.Although adverse effects of severe brain insult have been well documented,less is known about more subtle degrees of CNS involvement found inhigh-risk infants. Moreover, the specific neonatal problems that arepredictive of poor outcome in selected areas of later functioning are notwell understood, especially those responsible for subtle deficits inspecific areas such as fine motor skills, language processing, socialinteractions, attention, hyperactivity, and other contributors to cognitivedevelopment.. This becomes increasingly important as the incidence of majordisabilities decreases and the incidence of these more specific deficitsincreases. This poster workshop presents a series of studies thatinvestigate new research practices and refinement of existing measures tostudy different aspects of neonatal evaluations and longitudinal follow-upof infants at risk for poor developmental outcome due to a number of factorsincluding prematurity and birth asphyxia. These studies investigate a widespectrum of neonatal risk factors and neurobehavior including both clinicaland research procedures that measure sensory function as well as spontaneousand elicited motor function. Different studies address the issues oflongitudinal sequelae in the areas of language, mother-infant interactions,motor systems, and cognitive development during infancy and through theearly preschool years. The integration of these studies provides an overviewof recent work in this ever important and constantly evolving area ofresearch.
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