Effect of gestational age on special education: a population-based matched cohort analysis
Tessa de Baat, Anita C J Ravelli, Cornelieke S H Aarnoudse-Moens, Ameen Abu-Hanna, Aleid G Leemhuis · 2025
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Description
Tessa de Baat and co-authors ask how the week of birth affects a child's chance of needing special education. The Dutch study links a national birth registry with school records for more than 1.8 million children born from 1999 to 2009. All were single births without major birth defects, born between 25 and 42 weeks.
About one child in fifteen used special education at primary school. The rate peaked for children born at 25 weeks, where roughly a third needed it, and was lowest at 40 weeks. Every other birth-week group also faced raised odds, even late preterm and post-term children. Boys, small babies, children of less schooled mothers, and babies with low Apgar scores faced higher risk still.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Tessa de Baat, Anita C J Ravelli, Cornelieke S H Aarnoudse-Moens, Ameen Abu-Hanna, Aleid G Leemhuis |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |