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...

objective to evaluate the developmental situation of children that undergo operation because of syndromic and non-syndromic craniosynostosis. materials & methods in this prospective study, 24 children (4 to 16 months of age) who underwent neurosurgeryical intervention because of non-syndromic (79%) and syndromic (21%) craniosynostosis were recruited. for psychological evaluation, the bayley sca...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to explore concurrent validity of the age equivalent and standard scores of the Bayley Scales of Infant Development II (BSID II) Motor Scale and the Peabody Developmental Motor Scales-2 (PDMS-2), including correlations and clinical agreement between the scores of the two tests. METHODS One hundred ten children aged three to 41 months who were referred to ...

OBJECTIVE To ascertain the degree of agreement between a score for screening and another for diagnosis of motor development in 6-month old infants and to define the most appropriate cutoff point for screening. METHODS A sectional study, enrolling asymptomatic full term newborns with gestational ages from 37 to 41 weeks, who were discharged from the maternity unit 2 days after birth and are re...

ANTECEDENTES: Las escalas Bayley son una herramienta ampliamente reportada para la evaluación del desarrollo en los primeros años de vida. Estudios que comparan segunda edición (BSID-II) y tercera (B III), informan puntuaciones más altas lo esperado usando B-III, otros asumen el BSID-II presenta mayores exigencias a las varias poblaciones. No existen reportes población hispanohablante.
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This study investigated effects of prenatal cocaine exposure on infant sensorimotor development. One hundred and sixty-seven 12-month-olds (74 cocaine-exposed and 93 unexposed) were assessed using the Bayley Scales of Infant Development (BSID). Ninety-seven had previously been evaluated on the Movement Assessment of Infants and the Test of Sensory Functions in Infants at age 4 months. On the BS...

Bayley Scales of Infant Development (BSID) is considered to be a standard test for child development. The test requires experienced evaluator and is time consuming; therefore, it is not easy to apply in busy clinic. The Cognitive Adaptive Test/Clinical Linguistic and Auditory Milestone Scale (CAT/CLAMS) is an easy assessment method that has been demonstrated to correlate with BSID in many studi...

Fish contain nutrients essential to the developing fetal brain, but they are contaminated with methylmercury. The Tohoku Study of Child Development, now underway in the Sanriku coastal area of Miyagi prefecture, Japan, follows mother-child pairs to examine the risks and benefits of fish consumption during pregnancy, especially the effects of prenatal exposures to methylmercury, selenium, and do...

OBJECTIVES To investigate whether neuromuscular performance predicts lower limb bone strength in different lower limb sites in postmenopausal women with mild knee osteoarthritis (OA). METHODS Neuromuscular performance of 139 volunteer women aged 50-68 with mild knee OA was measured using maximal counter movement jump test, isometric knee flexion and extension force and figure-of-eight-running...