The case of prematurely born children - Interview with a clinical child and family researcher

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Understanding child development: from synapse to society

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Utrecht University

Understanding child development: from synapse to society

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In this course, we dive into the topic of child development. You will learn that child development is complex and is influenced by a surprisingly rich number of factors at many different levels of organization. You will see that development can be studied in various domains and at various levels of understanding, from different angles and disciplines. Importantly, you will come to understand that processes within and between the various domains and levels of organization continuously interact to shape development. This implies that understanding development requires taking an interdisciplinary approach. In order to help you organize your thinking about this complexity you will learn more about the developmental systems approach and theories related to that. We will look, amongst other things, at the brain and motor development, cognitive, language and social-emotional development and all the factors that have an influence on development. To illustrate how an interdisciplinary approach helps to understand child development you will see how researchers from various disciplines and backgrounds study child development at Utrecht University. These scientists will give a look in their field of knowledge and their collaboration with colleagues, to illustrate how the theory you will learn translates to practice. In sum, we invite you to follow us on a journey to understand child development from synapse to society!

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The big picture

In this final week of this course, you will be challenged to fit it all together and see the big picture.

The case of prematurely born children - Interview with a clinical child and family researcher4:20

Zooming out - Interview with a biologist7:01

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dr. Jorg Huijding
Associate Professor Clinical Child and Family Studies
Education and Pedagogy

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It's an important topic because in the Netherlands,

7% of the children is being born preterm, so this is 12,000 children each year.

And 10,000 of these children are born moderately preterm.

So it's also an important topic in numbers.

We need to know what happens to these children.

And we need to think how we can support parents and children.

And also, what is very nice is working with the children themselves and

working with parents, who are, of course, concerned when a child is born too soon.

What will happen?

How will its future be?

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I started already 30 years ago, I think,

in working on this topic and we follow the group of children.

We studied their development every half year after they were born, so at 6 months,

12 months and so on, until they were 5 and a half years of age.

And then we saw them once again when they were ten years of age.

And we compared their development, the development of the group of children born

preterm with the development of a group of children born at term.

And we saw that they differed and the preterm children had more difficulties,

for instance, in school problems.

And when we studied also, looking back, looking at the group

of children who were in a class at school that was appropriate for

the age versus the children that needed special schools or

who had been to do one class again.

We saw that the differences between these children we could already be

distinguished in the first years.

So these very young children are, this is an age period that is

very important to study development of these children.

I think the main power of dynamics of use is that we are starting to

collaborate interdisciplinary more and more.

Of course, when you study development of preterm children and

you are a psychologist,

you have to work together with doctors who treat the children.

And this is already an interdisciplinary collaboration.

>> My research is about neonatal neuroimaging.

And especially, the correlation for prediction with outcome.

And then we are looking at the babies who have a difficult start, for

example, premature babies, babies with oxygen shortness.

And we all know that these babies will have long term consequences.

And we would like to predict this.

If you look at the MRI, there are several

parameters we can check according to maturation.

So if we expect them to be delayed, we will look at, for example,

the critical spinal tracts where you can see the myelination.

And we can measure it, so we can quantify the maturation.

Thinking out of the books gives us more creativity in

solving the problems in prematurity.

And working with Ana Luz is really nice because we are looking

at outcome in specific areas, so attention capacities.

And she's doing special tests where we have

the knowledge about the brain development and the brain of the preterm baby.

She has the knowledge of the outcome and that's really nice to combine.

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>> Combination of all our expertise will lead to better insights,

new insights, that will, in the end, will help the children and the parents.

>> We are all researchers working on same topics from different angles,

and if we bring this together, you will gain a lot of knowledge.

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