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Acta Pñ diatr 90: 1440± 1449. 2001
Linguistic and motor abilities of low-birthweight children as assessed by parents and teachers at 8 years of age A Yliherva 1,2,3 , P Olse´n2,3 , E Ma¨ki-Torkko3,4 , M Koiranen3 and M-R Ja¨rvelin3,5 Departments of Finnish, Saami and Logopedics1 , Pediatrics2 , Public Health Science and General Practice 3 and Otorhinolaryngolog y4 , University of Oulu, Finland; Department of Epidemiology and Public Health5 , Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK
Yliherva A, Olse´n P, Ma¨ki-Torkko E, Koiranen M, Ja¨rvelin M-R. Linguistic and motor abilities of low-birthweight children as assessed by parents and teachers at 8 years of age. Acta Pædiatr 2001; 90: 1440–1449. Stockholm. ISSN 0803-5253 Linguistic and motor abilities among low-birthweight 8-y-old children in the northern Finland Birth Cohort for 1985–1986 (n = 9322) were studied using parental and teacher evaluations. The parents of 8370 (90%) and teachers of 8525 (92%) children returned a mailed questionnaire concerning the children’s speech, language, learning and motor abilities. Low-birthweight (LBW,
