The Effects of Premature Birth on Children Education

There has been an increase of survival rates among children born premature. The rate of survival differs globally from developed countries to developing countries. Some follow-up studies of children born prematurely are concerned of the neurodevelopmental impact on children as they progress from infant through adulthood and they indicated the range of deficits that comes with premature children. This research addresses the gap of how the education of children born premature is affected. A survey methodology was utilized and questionnaires were distributed to teachers in five special needs schools and one normal school in the North West of the United Kingdom. The results of the special needs schools were compared to normal school with respect to awareness of children born premature in classes, the technologies used by the impaired children, and the educational improvement of impaired children using the technology. The results showed that 100% of teachers in both schools were unaware of children born premature in their classes, 100% of teachers in special needs schools are aware of the assistive technologies compared to only 25% of teachers in normal school and 100% teachers in special needs schools support the use of assistive technologies for educational improvement compared to 1% teachers in normal school.