Avaliação do desenvolvimento neuropsicomotor, comportamental, social e da linguagem de crianças, em idade escolar, anteriormente submetidas a follow-up durante o primeiro ano de vida

Abstract

The present study is about a transversal descriptive analysis of a sample of 53 pacients submited with follow-up system during their first 18 months of correct age. From the total of 53 children of the Borges Study (2002), 20 of them, in the medium age of 8 years old, were contacted. The Mothers Interview Form was used with the purpose of make an analysis of the neuropsicomotor development, speech and the language development, the school history, conceptions and educational practices of the family, behavior characteristics, interpersonal relationships and the kind of interaction between mother and child. Of the children evaluated for the AIMS to the 18 months that had presented it props up low (percentile < 50) was observed that 62.5% present, currently, a normal development, whereas 37.5% still show some delay. The results shows that although the low weight and premature children need to face adverse conditions and initial difficulties in their development, they had not significant compromitment in their learning and development process.