Helping Low Birth Weight, Premature Babies: The Infant Health and Development Program

by Ruth T. Gross

Each year in the United States, 250,000 infants are born too soon, weighing too little. For these low birth weight, premature infants, the future is uncertain, since they are at risk for a variety of serious medical and developmental problems-including behavioral and learning disorders that may have damaging effects for the rest of their lives. The extent to which a comprehensive early intervention program could improve or prevent these adverse...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804726124
• ISBN13: 9780804726122
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 676 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"