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Biometric Measurements and Normal Growth Parameters in a Child
Published in Nirmal Raj Gopinathan, Clinical Orthopedic Examination of a Child, 2021
Prateek Behera, Nirmal Raj Gopinathan
In addition to the growth of a child, the evaluation of his/her developmental parameters is equally essential. This can easily be done using the revised Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST), which assesses the gross motor, language, fine motor (adaptive), and personal-social development.5
Epilogue
Published in Lucy Jane Miller, Developing Norm-Referenced Standardized Tests, 2020
I began to test the children in the Head Start program, and tested, and tested! At that time the only available screening test was the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST).1 As the weeks turned into months, and then into years it became glaringly apparent that the DDST was “missing” many of the children with a variety of problems, later identified by teachers. I then began to develop a simple checklist which I used in addition to the DDST in evaluating the abilities of these preschool children. (There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of this kind of criterion-referenced checklist in existence. Probably everyone reading this has developed one at some time.)
Familial and Social Dimensions
Published in Christopher J. Nicholls, Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Children and Adolescents, 2018
Many of the tools we use for evaluating or assessing a child’s abilities are developed and standardized on fairly narrow populations of individuals. One of the best examples of this is the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) (Frankenburg & Dodds, 1967), which for decades was perhaps the most commonly used method of determining if an infant or young child was reaching developmental milestones at appropriate ages. Quick and relatively easy to score, the clinician would observe whether an infant was able to support their weight on both arms, roll over, etc., and could estimate the developmental age level demonstrated by the infant. Expectations for what was “normal” based on this measure became common knowledge among clinicians, and the determination that an infant was delayed often led to a referral for early intervention services.
Factors affecting phoneme discrimination in children with sequential bilateral cochlear implants
Published in International Journal of Audiology, 2022
Erva Degirmenci Uzun, Merve Ozbal Batuk, Gonca Sennaroglu, Levent Sennaroglu
Children categorised as having bilateral NH with no language delay were included in the control group. All subjects in the control group received hearing screening before participation in the study to confirm NH. For pure-tone hearing screening, children participated in conditioned play audiometry using 1000-, 2000-, and 4000-Hz tones presented at 20 dB HL. A child was considered to pass the audiometry test if 2 of 3 reliable responses were obtained at 20 dB HL for all 3 frequencies in both ears (Association AS-L-H 1997). Children underwent the Denver Developmental Screening Test II (DDST-II) to screen developmental status. The DDST-II is a developmental screening scale in four areas: gross motor, language, fine motor-adaptive, and personal-social (Epir and Yalaz 1984). There were no developmental delays in any area or hearing loss in the control subjects.
Vitamin B12 status and neurodevelopmental delay in Indian infants: a hospital-based cross-sectional study
Published in Paediatrics and International Child Health, 2020
Chandrika Azad, Kana Ram Jat, Jasbinder Kaur, Vishal Guglani, Anshu Palta, Abhimanyu Tiwari, Dipika Bansal
Neurodevelopmental assessment was undertaken using the Denver developmental screening test II (DDST II) [13]. There are 125 test items arranged in four sectors to screen for personal-social, fine motor-adaptive, language and gross motor skills. Each item is represented by a bar that spans the ages at which 25%, 50%, 75% and 90% of the standardisation sample passed that item. This could be advanced, normal, caution, delayed and no opportunity. Children with two or more cautions and/or one or more delayed items are considered suspect; children with refusal scores on one or more items completely to the left of the age line or more than one item intersected by the age line in the 75th–90th centile area are taken as untestable. The test was performed only when children were off intravenous fluids and oxygen and feeding well. The assessment was undertaken on the day of discharge. The testing was performed by senior residents trained in DDST II testing.
Sleep habits as an indicator of social competence and behaviour in pre-schoolers in the context of neurodevelopmental disorders
Published in Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2019
Tayfun Kara, Ömer Alpgan, Semra Yılmaz, İsmail Akaltun
The Denver Developmental Screening Test II (DDST-II) was applied to the case group. Denver II is the 1992 revision of the Denver Developmental Screening Test [21]. The test has been adapted and standardized to Turkish society and is used to determine developmental problems that may be encountered in children. The test can be applied to children up to the age of 6 and evaluates fine motor skills, gross motor skills, language skills, and social skills [22].