Premature: growth and its relation to oral skills

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the influence of oral motor skills of premature infants on their oral feeding performance and growth, during neonatal hospitalization.METHODS: Fifty-one newborns hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit of a hospital in Southern Brazil, between July 2012 and March 2013...

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Main Authors: Camila Lehnhart Vargas, Luana Cristina Berwig, Eduardo Matias dos Santos Steidl, Leila Sauer Prade, Geovana Bolzan, Márcia Keske-Soares, Angela Regina Maciel Weinmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia
Series:CoDAS
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2317-17822015000400378&lng=en&tlng=en