Conclusion : Positive clinical ly meaningful effects ( > 5 points ) are seen to an age of 36 months , but are no longer present at 5 years
Objective : To determine in a systematic review , whether interventions for infant development that involve parents , improve neurodevelopment at 12 months corrected age or older .
One-Year Outcome of Auditory-Tactile-Visual-Vestibular Intervention in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Effects of Severe Prematurity and Central Nervous System Injury
Thirty-seven infants with severe central nervous system injury or extreme prematurity were r and omly assigned to a multisensory ( auditory-tactile-visual-vestibular ) intervention or control group . Intervention began in the hospital at 33 weeks ' postconceptional age and continued twice daily in the home until 2 months ' corrected age . Mother-infant interactions during feedings were videotaped , and the Bayley Scales of Infant Development were administered . Control mothers stimulated their infants more during feeding , but these significant differences dissipated by 4 months . The presence of periventricular leukomalacia was associated with significantly poorer mental development , regardless of group assignment . Experimental infants tended to exhibit better motor and mental performance and had 23 % fewer cerebral palsy diagnoses at 1 year , but these trends were not statistically significant . The type of brain injury was more important in determining 1-year developmental outcome than type of postnatal experience , suggesting that periventricular leukomalacia presents a major challenge for infant development . ( J Child Neurol 2001;16:493 - 498 )
Conclusion : Positive clinical ly meaningful effects ( > 5 points ) are seen to an age of 36 months , but are no longer present at 5 years
Objective : To determine in a systematic review , whether interventions for infant development that involve parents , improve neurodevelopment at 12 months corrected age or older .