MODERN APPROACHES TO EVALUATING THE COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS BORN WITH THE USE OF IVF
The article is devoted to a review of modern approaches to the study of the mental development of children and adolescents, the birth of which is associated with the IVF procedure. It has been shown that a significant part of research in IVF issues, is devoted to specific issues of obstetrics and gynecology, and the psychological component mainly concerns issues of perinatal psychology, among them the motivation and health of women, an assessment of the early development of a child conceived using IVF, issues of differentiating the consequences of the IVF procedure and other «harmfulnesses» of the perinatal and postnatal period, for example: intrauterine hypoxia, developmental features in multiple pregnancy, etc. The experience of assessing the mental development of children and adolescents born with help IVF in relation to their speech development, school performance, and some others is summarized. A variant of a new direction of research is proposed, associated with a multidisciplinary approach