Early identification of disabilities enables early intervention by occupational therapists and other health professionals. Because the number of children who can be seen in therapy is limited, it is important to be able to identify those infants most likely to have deficits at a later age. Therefore, it is necessary to study and understand the relationship between infants' scores on early devel...

The realtime manipulation of audio with desktop computers has become both possible and popular over the last several years. Perhaps the most important aspect that determines the suitability of a computer operating system for this application is the latency of its audio system. This paper describes the results of an experiment measuring the audio latency of several current desktop operating syst...

the present study assessed the construct validity and reliability of a researcher-constructed psycho-motor mechanism scale based on the communicative theory of translation proposed by pacte (2003). in doing so, the necessary criteria for designing the scale were obtained by a thorough review of related literature on previously constructed scales in error analysis or holistic ones. moreover, in ...

how to cite this article: yaghini o, kelishadi r, keikha m, niknam n, sadeghi s, najafpour e, ghazavi mr. prevalence of developmental delay in apparently normal preschool children in isfahan, central iran. iran j child neurol. summer 2015;9(3):17-23. abstract objective developmental delay screening is essential in pediatric medicine. the purpose of this study was to estimate the developmental d...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Adverse neurodevelopmental outcome is common in children born preterm. Early sensitive predictors of neurodevelopmental outcome such as MR imaging are needed. Tract-based spatial statistics, a diffusion MR imaging analysis method, performed at term-equivalent age (40 weeks) is a promising predictor of neurodevelopmental outcomes in children born very preterm. We sought to...

BACKGROUND The AIDS epidemic has lead to an increase in orphaned children who need residential care. It is known that HIV leads to delayed motor development. However, the impact of place of residence on motor function has not been investigated in the South African context. The aim of the study was therefore to establish if children in institutionalised settings performed better or worse in term...

OBJECTIVE To identify effective motor training interventions for children with developmental coordination disorder from research graded as high quality (using objective criteria) for the purpose of informing evidence-based clinical practice. DATA SOURCES We followed the guidance for conducting systematic reviews issued by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination. Six OvidSP electronic databas...

In low- and middle-income countries (LIMCs), measuring early childhood development (ECD) with standard tests in large scale surveys and evaluations of interventions is difficult and expensive. Multi-dimensional screeners and single-domain tests ('short tests') are frequently used as alternatives. However, their validity in these circumstances is unknown. We examined the feasibility, reliability...

Orphan Glutamate Receptor 1 Subunit Required for High-Frequency Hearing Jiangang Gao,† Stéphane F. Maison,† Xudong Wu, Keiko Hirose, Sherri M. Jones, Ildar Bayazitov, Yong Tian, Guy Mittleman, Douglas B. Matthews, Stanislav S. Zakharenko, M. Charles Liberman, and Jian Zuo* Department of Developmental Neurobiology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee; Department of Otology ...