Our study should provide hope to parents for an equivalent, if not better, future for their premature children.

Parents should be hopeful that with intervention, children can adapt and show improvement and function well in society.

Parents should be hopeful that with intervention, children can adapt and show improvement and function well in society.

Children who appear disabled at 2 or 3 are not necessarily doomed to a lifetime of disability. These young adults were able to achieve much more than we expected.

They were doing just about as well as children born of normal birth weight. A similar number were employed and education levels were similar.

They were doing just about as well as children born of normal birth weight. A similar number were employed and education levels were similar.