Background: The first year of life is the most important period of an extra uterine brain development requires environmental stimulation for developmental capabilities expression. Mean while, due to the repeated environmental disparity, nursery children are at great risk of developmental delay. Aim: To determine the effect of an evidence-based care package on infant gross motor development. Met...

BACKGROUND Delayed motor development is reported in patients with congenital heart disease (CHD). Exercise is widely used to facilitate motor development and improve motor ability. Exercise for adolescents and adults with CHD has been extensively studied. However, the evidence of exercise for infants with CHD is sparse. This study aims to identify the effect of passive movement and active exerc...

objective different medical and rehabilitation interventions have been used for treatment of cerebral palsy (cp). in addition to conventional methods, complementary medicine such as homeopathy has been used in treatment of neurodevelopmental disorders. this study has been done to determine what effect homeopathic treatment would have on motor development (md) of children with spastic cp, when a...

This study presents an independent replication and extension of psychometric evidence supporting the Theory of Mind Inventory (ToMI). Parents of 20 children with ASD (4; 1-6; 7 years; months) and 20 with typical development (3; 1-6; 5), rated their child's theory of mind abilities in everyday situations. Other parent report and child behavioral assessments included the Social Responsiveness Sca...

The validity of the Parental Concerns Questionnaire, a brief screening checklist assessing the presence and severity of 13 developmental and behavioral concerns expressed by parents of children with autism spectrum disorders, was determined in 53 children ages 4 to 10 years with a clinical diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder and 48 age-matched typically developing controls. Parents completed ...

Department of Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461, USA, Department of Pediatrics, Brown University Medical School, Providence, RI 02912, USA, Departments of Medicine and Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, 954 Biomedical Research Building (BRB) II/III, 421 Curie Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA and Depar...

how to cite this article: amini m, aliabadi f, alizade m, kalani m, qorbani m. the relationship between motor function and behavioral function in infants with low birth weight. iran j child neurol. autumn 2016; 10(4):49-55.   abstract objective nowadays, the evaluation of all aspects of infant development is important. however, in practice, some of these assessments, especially those requiring ...

This study investigates the relationship between child care arrangements and developmental outcomes of young children using data from Cycle 1 of the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth. Models of the determinants of Motor and Social Development (MSD) scores for children aged 0-47 months, and of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test assessment scores (PPVT-R) for children a...