Journal article
USE OF CHRONOLOGICAL AND ADJUSTED AGES TO COMPARE MOTOR DEVELOPMENT OF HEALTHY PRETERM AND FULLTERM INFANTS
Abstract
To investigate the influence of gestational age at birth on motor development in infancy and the practice of basing motor assessments of preterm infants on an adjusted age, 21 healthy preterm and 23 fullterm infants were administered the Peabody Developmental Motor Scales at 12, 15 and 18 months of age. When quotients were based on chronological age, both the mean gross-motor and fine-motor developmental quotients of the fullterm group were …
Authors
Palisano RJ
Journal
Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 180–187
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
April 1986
DOI
10.1111/j.1469-8749.1986.tb03852.x
ISSN
0012-1622