INTERVENTION WITH PREMATURE HUMAN INFANTS

  • 1 January 1976
    • journal article
    • review article
    • Vol. 47  (1) , 32-39
Abstract
Stimulation was given to young infants to prevent the developmental disabilities often associated with prematurity. A review of these experimental programs revealed a lack of knowledge as to the ecology of the premature infant. This was indicated in the assumption that premature infants were sensorily deprived and by the arbitrary differences in the nature of stimulation techniques. Despite various problems in methodological design and outcome assessment, stimulated infants tended to perform at higher levels than control-group infants on measures of sensorimotor and motor development. Future research should be directed toward specifying the environment and processing capacities of the premature infant, and intervention studies should make use of the 4-group design proposed by Solomon and Lessac (1968).

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