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Early Intervention Program For The High-Risk Prematurity, Tsui-Fen Yang, Wen Ling, Woei-Nan Bair, Chih-Chuan Kao, Ling-Yee Cheng, Tao-Chung Hsu, Shu-Jen Chen, Wen-Jen Soong

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

The survival rate of high-risk premature baby is increasing in recent years because of improvement in medical technology for newborn care. Unfortunately, since many of them were born with one or some risk factors, the incidence to complicate with developmental disability, learning disability, emotional or behavior problems will be higher than general population. We started early intervention program for the prematurity in PICU and SBR in Oct., 1990 especially for those high-risk prematurity who combined with one or more risk factors as below: birth weight less than 1500 gm, gestational age below 32 weeks, ventilator requirment, grade III or IV …