Assenço, Ana Manhani CáceresLima, Antonio Marcos Oliveira de2023-05-262023-05-262021LIMA, Antonio Marcos Oliveira de; CÁCERES-ASSENÇO, Ana Manhani. Quais fatores interferem no desempenho de pré-escolares no subteste de linguagem da Bayley-III? Codas, [S.L.], v. 34, n. 1, p. 34, 2022. FapUNIFESP (SciELO). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2317-1782/20212020200. Disponível em: https://www.scielo.br/j/codas/a/85fQTF7LdS3wfyJ4HVG3vzB/?lang=pt. Acesso em: 19 abr. 2023.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/52543Purpose: to verify if the performance of pre-school children born prematurely and at term in the Bayley-III language subtest differs and to identify whether variables gestational age, birth weight, socioeconomic level, and maternal education are determinant in the outcome of language development. Methods: Descriptive cross-sectional case-control study in which 36 pre-school children born prematurely and 27 born at term were evaluated concerning language development by the Bayley III subtest. Preschoolers between 18 and 36 months of chronological age were considered; with no syndromes or genetic, sensory, neurological, auditory, or visual impairments; and had not previously undergone speech therapy. Mann-Whitney, Fisher's Exact, and binary logistic regression tests were used for statistical analysis. Results: the groups' performance did not differ either by the composite score (p = .701) or by the classification based on the percentile (p = .225). Gestational age, birth weight, and socioeconomic status did not influence the outcome of language development. However, maternal education was significant (p = .014) in the binary logistic regression model, suggesting that the mother having studied until basic education increases the chance of having a child underperforming in the Bayley III language subtest 6.31 times. Conclusion: there was no difference between the groups in the Bayley-III language subtest and only maternal education influenced the outcome of language development.Attribution 3.0 Brazilhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/br/pré-escolaresnascimento prematurotestes de linguagemdesenvolvimento da linguagemfatores de riscoarticlehttps://doi.org/10.1590/2317-1782/20212020200