Preventing academic difficulties in preterm children: An adaptive working memory training intervention.

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1028422

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Preterm children exhibit high rates of learning disability which has considerable social and economic consequences. It is proposed that these learning difficulties are related to reduced working memory capacity. This randomised controlled trial will investigate the ability of an established working memory training program to improve academic functioning and prevent learning disability in children born extremely preterm. Neuroimaging will be performed to study functional neuroplasticity associated with improved working memory capacity.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2012

End Date: 01-01-2015

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $711,566.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine not elsewhere classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

cognitive neuroscience | learning difficulty | low birth weight infant | magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) | neuropsychology | prematurity | randomised controlled trial (RCT) | working memory

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