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School performance at nine years of age in very premature and very low birth weight infants: perinatal risk factors and predictors at five years of age. Collaborative Project on Preterm and Small for Gestational Age (POPS) Infants in The Netherlands.Hille ET, den Ouden AL, Bauer L, van den Oudenrijn C, Brand R, Verloove-Vanhorick SP.

J Pediatr. 1994 Sep;125(3):426-34.

Alan W Gemmill

Barre N, Morgan A, Doyle L, Anderson P. Language Abilities in Children Who Were Very Preterm and /or Very Low Birth Weight: A Meta-Analysis J Pediatr 2011;158(5):776-4.

van Noort-van der Spek IL, Franken M, Weisglas-Kuperus N. Language functions in preterm-born children: a systematic review and meta-analysis Pediatrics 2012;129(4):745-54.

Jann P Foster

Thank you Anna and Alan, much appreciated.