[Follow-up studies of high-risk children at the time of entering school in comparison with a normal group].

Somatic, neurological and psychological follow-up examinations performed on 54 high-risk children for school enrollment gave no significant differences in comparison with a randomized equal number of normal control children, with regard to physical development and maturation as indicated by carporadiograms. So far as neurological development was concerned, there was a slightly more frequent occurrence of minimal defects and, anamnestically, a marked retardation in the mastering of static functions (running) and speech development in the high-risk group. The results were in correlation with the psychological test findings. Here, too, a more frequent occurrence of impaired intellectual functions was found, which led to a greater number of deferments, conditional enrollments and transfers to special schools. Prospective examinations afford better opportunities of etiologically classifying and registering defects, including light forms. In this connection problems of screening are also discussed.