TY - JOUR
T1 - Multilingualism was associated with lower cognitive outcomes in children who were born very and extremely preterm
AU - van Veen, S.
AU - Remmers, S.
AU - Aarnoudse-Moens, C. S.H.
AU - Oosterlaan, J.
AU - van Kaam, A. H.
AU - van Wassenaer-Leemhuis, A. G.
N1 - ©2018 The Authors. Acta Paediatrica published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Foundation Acta Paediatrica.
PY - 2019/3/1
Y1 - 2019/3/1
N2 - Aim: This study determined whether cognitive outcomes differed between very preterm (VPT) and extremely preterm (EPT) children who were monolingual or multilingual when they reached the corrected ages of two and five years. Methods: The data were collected at the Emma Children's Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, as part of our national neonatal follow-up programme and comprised 325 VPT/EPT children born between January 1, 2007 and January 1, 2012. The study used the Third Editions of the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development and the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence. Results: We compared 234 monolingual children, 65 multilingual children who spoke Dutch and at least one foreign language at home and 26 multilingual children who didn't speak Dutch at home. The best performers on the cognitive scale at two years of age and the verbal subscales at five years of age were the monolingual children, followed by the children who spoke Dutch and at least one foreign language at home, then the children who only spoke foreign languages at home. Conclusion: In our study cohort from The Netherlands, multilingualism lowered the cognitive and verbal outcomes of VPT/EPT children at the corrected ages of two and five years.
AB - Aim: This study determined whether cognitive outcomes differed between very preterm (VPT) and extremely preterm (EPT) children who were monolingual or multilingual when they reached the corrected ages of two and five years. Methods: The data were collected at the Emma Children's Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, as part of our national neonatal follow-up programme and comprised 325 VPT/EPT children born between January 1, 2007 and January 1, 2012. The study used the Third Editions of the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development and the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence. Results: We compared 234 monolingual children, 65 multilingual children who spoke Dutch and at least one foreign language at home and 26 multilingual children who didn't speak Dutch at home. The best performers on the cognitive scale at two years of age and the verbal subscales at five years of age were the monolingual children, followed by the children who spoke Dutch and at least one foreign language at home, then the children who only spoke foreign languages at home. Conclusion: In our study cohort from The Netherlands, multilingualism lowered the cognitive and verbal outcomes of VPT/EPT children at the corrected ages of two and five years.
KW - Cognition
KW - Immigration
KW - Language
KW - Multilingual
KW - Prematurity
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UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30047166
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1111/apa.14516
DO - https://doi.org/10.1111/apa.14516
M3 - Article
C2 - 30047166
SN - 0803-5253
VL - 108
SP - 479
EP - 485
JO - Acta Paediatrica
JF - Acta Paediatrica
IS - 3
ER -