[Success at school of children with early recognized phenylketonuria. Catamnesis of 50 children whose dietary treatment was started within their first or second month of life (author's transl)].
The success at school of 50 children is evaluated whose phenylkenuria was detected within the first 8 weeks of life and treated since. Recent reports on normal psychological development can now be augmented by this criteria established outside the hospital. For the evaluation the following items were taken into account: age at start of schooling; postponed admission to school; repetition of a class; move to secondary schools, and social background. The success at school is further confirmation of a normal mental development in these children, and a normal school leaving certificate or later an ordinary occupation are to expected.
D000124:Achievement; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005860:Germany, West; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007360:Intelligence; D008134:Long-Term Care; D010661:Phenylketonurias / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000178:diet therapy*; D012572:School Health Services; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013997:Time Factors
Phenylketonurie: Schulerfolg bei Früherfassung. Katamnese bei 50 phenylketonurischen Kindern mit Diätheginn im ersten und zweiten Lebensmonat.