Abstract
Due to improvements in neonatal intensive care many more preterm infants with an extremely low birth weight and a gestational age below 26 weeks survive. However, the vast majority of preterm infants are low-risk with a birth weight above 1000g. This group is mostly considered to be “normal“ and increasingly neglected in research, although longitudinal studies showed that neuropsychological and behavioral problems increase during school age. Therefore questions concerning school success and quality of life all the way into early adulthood are important for this group. Research on these issues has focussed on high-risk infants. Here, group differences mainly result from lower health related quality of life due to physical handicap.
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