Detection of communicative-linguistic difficulties in Compulsory Secondary Education in children born preterm with a birth weight less than 1501 grams

• Main Authors: Alfonso Coronado Marín, Belén Sáenz-Rico de Santiago, Félix Omeñaca Teres, Celia Díaz González
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2017-04-01
• Series: Revista Complutense de Educación
• Subjects: prematuros; rendimiento escolar; perfil comunicativo-lingüístico; desarrollo del lenguaje; enseñanza secundaria
• Online Access: http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RCED/article/view/49474
• ISSN: 1130-2496; 1988-2793

This research aims to contribute to the knowledge of the educational profile in performance and identify new morbidities at school age of preterm infants less than 1501 g born in 2000 at the University Hospital La Paz in Madrid. To do this, from an interdisciplinary approach, we conducted a quasi-experimental, prospective and cross-sectional study with a sample of 44 participants. The language was assessed by BLOC-SR test and it has obtained results that show low-linguistic communicative profile, besides a repetition rate of 36%. The data show positive correlations between biomedical variables as birth weight, gestational age, APGAR and birth size and psychoeducational variables. We conclude that participants in our study showed more likely to have difficulties in the communicative-linguistic area this chronological age. It has been found influence of biomedical factors in language, setting it as one of the new morbidities associated with prematurity.