Handwriting performance in preterm children compared with term peers at age 6 to 7 years.

abstract：:The ambulatory status of 74 neonatal intensive care unit survivors with cerebral palsy, excluding those with central nervous system malformations and syndromes, was assessed at eight years of age. Detailed examinations were completed at two and eight years of age; of the 47 who were sitting by two years, 46 became amb...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Watt JM,Robertson CM,Grace MG

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to describe and analyze gross and fine motor function and accompanying neurological impairments in children with cerebral palsy (CP) born between 1991 and 1998 in western Sweden. A population-based study comprised 411 children with a diagnosis of CP ascertained at 4 to 8 years of age. Gross M...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Himmelmann K,Beckung E,Hagberg G,Uvebrant P

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although autism can occur in conjunction with a range of other conditions, the association with Down syndrome is generally considered to be relatively rare. Four young boys with Down syndrome are described who were also autistic. All children clearly fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for autism required by the ICD-10 ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Howlin P,Wing L,Gould J

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study surveyed the development and functioning of a group of 16 children with congenital hypothyroidism who had been followed closely since treatment was instituted at an average age of 15.6 days. This group of early-treated young children had no deficits in cognitive or adaptive functioning. Some isolated motor ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Gottschalk B,Richman RA,Lewandowski L

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To explore the views and practices of paediatric occupational therapists and physical therapists in Canada and the USA regarding the implementation of power mobility for children with mobility limitations. METHOD:This descriptive study utilized a web-based survey that included questions pertaining to therapists' d...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Kenyon LK,Jones M,Livingstone R,Breaux B,Tsotsoros J,Williams KM

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess outcome for children with severe neurological impairment receiving invasive mechanical ventilation for respiratory failure. METHOD:Medical charts for all such children treated in our intensive care unit (ICU) between January 2003 and July 2008 were reviewed. Outcomes were compared with those for children...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： van Gestel JP,Robroch AH,Bollen CW,Van Der Ent CK,Van Vught AJ

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The developing brain in utero and during the first years of life is highly vulnerable to environmental influences. Experiences occurring during this period permanently modify brain structure and function through epigenetic modifications (alterations of the DNA structure and chromatin function) and consequently affect ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Miguel PM,Pereira LO,Silveira PP,Meaney MJ

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the architecture of the medial gastrocnemius in nine children (five males, four females; age range 6 to 15 years; mean 10 years 10 months, SD 3 years 6 months) with spastic diplegia by ultrasound imaging before and after a gastrocnemius recession. The children were ambulant (seven independent, one with a p...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Shortland AP,Fry NR,Eve LC,Gough M

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children with mild developmental delay without dysmorphic features do not often have identifiable underlying aetiological factors. We report on a 5-year-old girl with mild developmental delay and dysmorphic features which were previously unrecognized. She was found to have supernumerary ring chromosome 19 mosaicism wh...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Vaz I,Larkins SA,Norman A,Green SH

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two newborn infants who suffered severe intra-uterine anoxia a few weeks before birth are described. Both died shortly after being born spontaneously and slightly prematurely. In one case the mother had attempted suicide by inhaling butane. The infant's kidneys were hypoplastic and resembled those seen in renal dyspla...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Gosseye S,Golaire MC,Larroche JC

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracranial calcification (ICC) is a common finding on neuroimaging in paediatric neurology practice. In approximately half of all cases the calcification occurs in damaged, neoplastic, or malformed brain. For the large number of other disorders in which ICC occurs, no common pathogenetic mechanism can be suggested. ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Livingston JH,Stivaros S,Warren D,Crow YJ

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-seven consecutive patients (59 females, eight males; mean age 13.6 years, age range 8.1 to 18 years) with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis were evaluated for segmental dystonia, thermal and vibratory thresholds, and cortical somatosensory evoked potentials (cSEPs). Clinically, there were no signs of segmental dys...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Olafsson Y,Odergren T,Persson HE,Saraste H

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:There are many misconceptions about what constitutes 'quality of life' (QoL). It is often difficult for researchers and clinicians to determine which instruments will be most appropriate to their purpose. The aim of the current paper is to describe QoL instruments for children and adolescents with neurodisabilities...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Waters E,Davis E,Ronen GM,Rosenbaum P,Livingston M,Saigal S

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conduction velocities of motor, IA and non-nociceptive cutaneous sensory fibres have been studied in the ulnar and median nerves of 145 healthy fullterm neonates and in 77 preterm neonates (postconceptional age-range 28 to 42 weeks). The posterior tibial-nerve motor and IA fibres were studied: the sural nerve cuta...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Khater-Boidin J,Duron B

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the underlying factor structure of the 46-item Flemish cerebral visual impairment (CVI) questionnaire, differentiate the factor scores of children with and without CVI, and examine the impact of comorbidities on factor scores. METHOD:The records of 630 children (386 males, 244 females; median age 77...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Ben Itzhak N,Vancleef K,Franki I,Laenen A,Wagemans J,Ortibus E

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors studied the intellectual outcome of 45 of the 47 schoolchildren who had been born with very low birthweights (less than 1501 g) in Wolverhampton between 1975 and 1978 and were free of major handicap. Their outcome was compared with that of a control group matched for age, sex, race and social class. The ve...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Lloyd BW,Wheldall K,Perks D

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Turner syndrome, a genetic disorder that results from the complete or partial absence of an X chromosome in females, has been associated with specific impairment in visuospatial cognition. Previous studies have demonstrated a relationship between parietal lobe abnormalities and visuospatial deficits in Turner syndrome...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Brown WE,Kesler SR,Eliez S,Warsofsky IS,Haberecht M,Reiss AL

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to examine the descriptive epidemiology of vision impairment among 6- to 10-year-old children in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Children with vision impairment (n=310; 42% black, 56% white; 57% male, 43% female), defined as a best corrected visual acuity in the better eye of 20/70 ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Mervis CA,Boyle CA,Yeargin-Allsopp M

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Dodd's Model for Differential Diagnosis is one of the available clinical diagnostic classification systems of childhood speech sound disorders. Yet we do not understand the validity of this system beyond clinical samples, precluding its application in epidemiological or population-based research. This study aimed t...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Ttofari Eecen K,Eadie P,Morgan AT,Reilly S

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of a study of a nationally representative sample of disabled children and controls are presented. The findings suggest that although, at any one time, families containing a disabled child are not no more likely to be one-parent families, disabled children do appear to be more likely to experience a spell i...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Cooke K,Bradshaw J,Lawton D,Brewer R

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to clarify the extent and cause of African infants' precocity in motor development, as reported by Geber and others, 64 babies and their families were intensively studied in a rural Kenyan community. It was found that the motor skills of sitting and walking, which the Kenyan babies acquired early (by American...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Super CM

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Participation and activity performance (motor and cognitive or behavioural) were examined in 148 children with cerebral palsy (CP; 87 males, 61 females; mean age 9y 8mo, SD 1y 11mo; range 6y 1mo to 13y 7mo), mainstreamed in fully inclusive (n=100) and in self-contained classes (n=48) within general schools in Israel, ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Schenker R,Coster WJ,Parush S

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the effectiveness of soft splints made from polyurethane foam in reducing severe knee-flexion contractures of patients with cerebral palsy. The splints were applied nightly over a period of 10 months. Knee-flexion contractures were reduced by an average of 24 degrees in all patients. Younger patie...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Anderson JP,Snow B,Dorey FJ,Kabo JM

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the social and academic implications of mainstream, mainstream and special (combined) or special-class education for 31 adolescents with spina bifida, and for their primary caretakers. The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and the UCLA Loneliness Scale (adolescents) and the Personality Inventory for ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Lord J,Varzos N,Behrman B,Wicks J,Wicks D

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical activity has significant health benefits and is positively associated with health-related quality of life and psychosocial functioning. Persons with disability are at particular risk of inactivity. For adults with cerebral palsy (CP), impaired health and function typically impede participation in physical act...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Thorpe D

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parental report may provide an inexpensive alternative to standardized assessments of children's development. We have adapted and validated a parental questionnaire on cognitive development for use with very preterm infants. Sixty-four 2-year-olds (28 males, 36 females) born less than 30 weeks' gestation (median 28.5 ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Johnson S,Marlow N,Wolke D,Davidson L,Marston L,O'Hare A,Peacock J,Schulte J

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Impaired airway clearance leads to recurrent chest infections and respiratory deterioration in neuromuscular weakness. It is frequently the cause of death. Cough is the major mechanism of airway clearance. Cough has several components, and assessment tools are available to measure the different components of cough. Th...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Gauld LM

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study surveyed 237 schoolchildren in a lead-polluted industrial area in northern Italy to assess the relationship between various biological indicators (lead in blood, hair and teeth, and delta-aminolevulinic dehydratase [ALA-D] activity) and some neuropsychological functions, assessed by a battery of five psycho...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Bergomi M,Borella P,Fantuzzi G,Vivoli G,Sturloni N,Cavazzuti G,Tampieri A,Tartoni PL

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 11-year-old girl was evaluated for walking difficulties and fatigue at the end of the day in the last 2 years. Handwriting was also difficult with 'cramps' after a short time of writing. Neurological examination was normal most of the time but in the evening and after exercise, an abnormal walking posture and rare ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Deonna T,Roulet E,Ghika J,Zesiger P

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate construct and predictive validity of the Communication Function Classification System (CFCS) for use with preschool children with a range of speech and language disorders. METHOD:Seventy-seven preschool children with speech and language disorders (50 males, 27 females; mean 2y 7mo, standard deviation [...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Hidecker MJ,Cunningham BJ,Thomas-Stonell N,Oddson B,Rosenbaum P

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00