Comparison of methods for assessing the psychomotor development of preterm infants born with extremely low birth weight and very low birth weight

• Tamara K. Tsechoeva
• Yulia A. Burdukova
• Anna A. Lenyushkina
• Dmitry N. Degtyarev

Abstract

The review presents information about the methods of standardized study of the level of neurocognitive development of children and provides a comparative characteristic of the current methods of assessing neuropsychological development. The original standardization procedure was studied, and the methodological manual of the Bayley-III scales was translated into Russian. An exploratory search was conducted to assess neuropsychological development using the Bayley-III scales in both term and preterm mature children born with very low and extremely low birth weight.

Keywords: neurocognitive development; assessment of psychomotor development; Scales Bailey-III; profound prematurity; ELBW; VLBW

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