Cognitively stimulating parenting has beneficial effects for very preterm children BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT IN VERY PRETERM CHILDREN Children who were born very preterm (< 33 weeks)
“Special educational needs” is a term used to describe learning difficulties or disabilities that make learning more difficult than the majority of children of the
It is a fundamental sensory function, present from birth. The newborn possesses a wide range of well-defined visual abilities: for example, he is capable to
Prematurity impacts 7-10% of the newborn population and depicts a different reality between each newborn. A newborn is considered premature if born at less than
what does my newborn see? Visual functions in a newborn are sign of neurological health and efficiency
Each of us has a guardian angel. Some believe, some don’t. I am convinced that my guardian angel lives very close to me. The hard
The global functional assessment is needed just to take stock of the situation and
answers to questions: is everything allright ? Could we do something else for our
child ? Should we contact a specialist ? Should we register him for kindergarten ?
In short, it tells us what stage that particular child has achieved, considering his age,
about every area concerning the cognition and psychomotor development.
To do so, we refer to a last generation development scale: Griffiths III
Non-nutritive suction (NNS) is a reflexive oro-motor behavior that follows a specific developmental trajectory: from the early fetal period of 16-18 weeks of gestational age
