OBJECTIVE The study's objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Interdisciplinary Sensory-Enriched Early Intervention (ISEEI) group program for children with developmental delays. METHOD We conducted a retrospective chart review of 63 children ages 18-36 mo who participated in ISEEI. We evaluated participants with the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development III (Bayley-III) a...

Differences between Mental Scale scores on the revised Bayley Scales of Infant Development(BSID-II) and the original test (BSID) were evaluated. Both versions ofthe measure were administered to 32 subjects, ranging in age from 3 to 28 months, in counterbalanced order. Inter-test correlations indicated that the two versions of the test were significantly correlated (r = .76, p < 0.05). Significa...

The Bayley Short Form – Research Edition (BSF-R). At the base year (henceforth called the 9-month wave, as children were approximately 9 months of age at the time of assessment) and first follow-up (henceforth called the 2-year wave, since children were approximately 2 years of age at the time of assessment), the Bayley Short Form-Research Edition (BSF-R) was used. The BSF-R consists of a subse...

BACKGROUND Appropriate tools are essential to support a clinician's decision to refer very preterm infants to developmental resources. Streamlining the use of developmental assessment or screening tools to make clinical decisions offers an alternative methodology to help to choose the most effective way to assess this very high-risk population. OBJECTIVE To examine the influence of the Ages a...

BACKGROUND The Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development-third edition (Bayley-III) are frequently used to assess early child development worldwide. However, the original standardization only included US children, and it is still unclear whether or not these norms are adequate for use in other populations. Recently, norms for the Dutch version of the Bayley-III (The Bayley-III-NL) were ma...

OBJECTIVE To compare the structural growth and developmental outcome of children born to mothers diagnosed with major depressive disorder during pregnancy who were exposed or not exposed to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) in utero. STUDY DESIGN Children whose mothers were diagnosed with major depressive disorder in pregnancy and elected not to take medication (n = 13) were com...

The first years of life comprise a critical developmental period that has implications for lifelong outcomes. The overall goal of this paper is to provide an empirically-based overview of parenting in a developing country setting and to measure the correlation between parenting behavior and children’s cognitive development. We randomly sampled 1442 infants aged 18–30 months living in 351 villag...

BACKGROUND The Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development (III) is a tool developed in a Western setting. AIM To evaluate the development of a group of inner city children in South Africa with no neonatal risk factors using the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development (III), to determine an appropriate cut-off to define developmental delay, and to establish variation in scores don...

Little is known about arachidonic acid (ARA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) requirements in toddlers. A longitudinal, double blind, controlled trial in toddlers ( n = 133) age 13.4 &#177; 0.9 months (mean &#177; standard deviation), randomized to receive a DHA (200 mg/day) and ARA (200 mg/day) supplement (supplement) or a corn oil supplement (control) until age 24 months determined effects on n...

Concurrent and predictive validities of the Bayley Motor Scale and the Peabody Developmental Motor Scales were examined by administering both tests to 23 full-term and 21 healthy premature infants at 12, 15, and 18 months of age. For both groups, a correlation analysis of age-equivalent scores indicated Bayley scores had good to high correlation with Peabody gross motor scores (range, r = .78 t...