
the oral language performance of premature children and controls.
fifty-one premature children born in 1955
and 1956 were compared with 55 normally
born subjects with birth weights over
2,500 grams.  they were tested on
tapped patterns, auditory memory span,
auditory discrimination, word recognition,
language comprehension, articulation,
resistance to articulation disintegration,
word finding, story telling, number of words
used, mean length of 5 longest sentences,
sentence elaboration, grammatical
errors, definitions and categories.
the mean age of both groups was 5.8 and the
premature children's performance
was inferior to that of children born at term.
