Potential Value of Four Early Developmental Milestones in Screening Children for Increased Risk of Later Retardation

Neligan, G. A.; Prudham, D.

doi:10.1111/j.1469-8749.1969.tb01460.x

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“…These results confirm previous reports (IUingworth, 1968;Neligan & Prudham, 1969) concerning the lack of predictive value of motor delay for later mental retardation, even though a postural delay is frequently outlined in mentally handicapped children, most of all in the lowest IQ subgroups (IUingworth, 1961;Molnar, 1978).…”

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Mental outcome in West syndrome: prognostic value of some clinical factors

Favatà¹,

Leuzzi²,

Curatolo³

1987

J intellect Disabil Res

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ABSTRACT. Fifty‐eight cases of West syndrome (eight idiopathic, 50 secondary) have been followed‐up for a mean period of 5 years 5 months. The relationship has been studied between intellectual status at the final follow‐up and the following variables: etiology, age of onset, neurological examination and developmental assessment at the onset, CT scan findings, short‐term effect of ACTH treatment, and age of acquiring four developmental milestones (sitting unsupported, walking unsupported, uttering the first specific word and using a sentence of two words). Developmental and/or neurological abnormalities before the onset of the spasms, symptomatic etiology and abnormal CT findings are associated with a low IQ at the final follow‐up. The age for sitting unsupported and for walking unsupported has proved to be not predictive of intellectual outcome, but the speech development data have shown a highly significant relationship with intellectual development. Early identification of the children with mental retardation has turned out to be superior to prediction of normal mental outcome.

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Mental outcome in West syndrome: prognostic value of some clinical factors

Favatà¹,

Leuzzi²,

Curatolo³

1987

J intellect Disabil Res

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“…A similar type of skewing was noted by Frankenburg and Dodds (1967) for all their items; by Hindley (1968) and Hindley et al (1966) for walking; and by Miller et al (1960) for their two speech milestones. Its possible practical significance is discussed elsewhere (Neligan and Prudham 1969); but the skewing provides one good reason for reporting the results in terms of percentiles rather than means and standard deviations. Another advantage is that this brings them into line with the standard height and weight charts with which clinical workers are familiar.…”

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Norms for Four Standard Developmental Milestones by Sex, Social Class and Place in Family

Prudham

1969

Develop Med Child Neuro

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SUMMARY Norms for the developmental milestones of sitting and walking unsupported, using single words and using sentences, as defined in writing, have been worked out from data concerning the whole child population of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne born during the year 1961. The distributions for all four milestones are markedly skewed, to approximately the same extent, and the results are presented in terms of percentiles in a way which is potentially of practical use. The correlations between the âges at which children pass the two performance milestones and the two verbal milestones are much higher than the correlations across these divisions. The two milestones, one motor and one verbal, on which we considered the mothers' evidence most likely to be accurate, were walking and using sentences. These were therefore investigated further. Girls and first‐born children show significant advancement in using sentences; children in Social Classes II, IV and V show significant advancement in walking. Lapse of time in teims of years before the mother's history is given markedly reduces the reliability of her evidence. Résumé Normes des étapes fondamentales de développement par sexe, classe sociale et place dans lefamille Les normes pour les étapes de développement de la tenue assise, de la marche sans aide, de I'usage des mots isolés et de I'usage des phrases ont étéétablies à partir des observations tirees de toute la population infantile de Newcastle nee en 1961. Les distributions, pour ces quatre etapes, sont fortement assymetriques, aproximativement au meme degre et les resultats sont exprimes en termes de percentile, d'une facon tres utilisable en pratique courante. Les correlations entre les âges auxquels les enfants atteignent les deux étapes motrices et les deux étapes verbales sont beaucoup plus fortes que les correlations existant entre ces deux groupes. Les deux étapes, l'une motrice et l'autre verbale, sur laquelle les indications des mères paraissent les plus precises sont la marche et I'usage des phrases: aussi ont‐elles fait l'objet d'investigations plus poussees. Les filles et les enfants premier‐nes sont plus en vance dans I'usage des phrases; les enfants des classes sociales 3, 4 et 5 sont significativement en avance pour la marche. Le temps, en annees ecoulees, jusqu'a ce que la mere donne les precisions reduit nettement leur valeur. ZUSAMMENFASSUNG Geschlecht, Soziale Stellung undPlatz in der Familie als Normenfür vier Meilensteine der Entwicklung Für die Meilensteine in der Entwicklung: Sitzen, Gehen ohne Unterstiitzung, Gebrauch einzelner Worte und Gebrauch ganzer geschriebener Satze wurden Normen ausgearbeitet, die sich auf Daten von alien Kindern der Stadt Newcastle upon Tyne beziehen, welche im Jahre 1961 geboren sind. Die Verteilungen aller vier Meilensteine sind deutlich und fast im gleichen Verhaltnis verschoben, und die Ergebnisse werden in Prozenten auf eine Weise vorgelegt, die unter Umstanden einen praktischen Nutzen erlaubt. Die Beziehungen zwischen den Altersgruppen, in denen die Kind...

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The Brain and Development of Function

Touwen

1998

Developmental Review

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Potential Value of Four Early Developmental Milestones in Screening Children for Increased Risk of Later Retardation

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Mental outcome in West syndrome: prognostic value of some clinical factors

Mental outcome in West syndrome: prognostic value of some clinical factors

Norms for Four Standard Developmental Milestones by Sex, Social Class and Place in Family

The Brain and Development of Function

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