The study had two purposes. The first was to study the effects of biomedical and
environmental conditions on cognitive and language development in a longitudinal
sample of 96 children studied from birth to three years of age. The sample was
characterised by mostly healthy, full-term infants, with few preterm and very low
birthweight infants. It was hypothesised that biomedical factors would be more
strongly related to cognitive and language development in the first two years and
that environmental factors would more strongly influence outcomes at age three
years. The second purpose of this study was to use an analysis approach that permits
the estimation of variables assumed to underlie the measurement data. This approach
was compared with the results of more traditional analyses (e.g. correlation and
regression analyses). The results supported the hypothesis, and also supported the
results of some other research utilising subject samples which were characterised by
more severe perinatal and neonatal complications than characterised the sample of
the present study.
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