Motor delays: early identification and evaluation.

Nortitz GH, Murphy NA, NEUROMOTOR SCREENING EXPERT PANEL. Motor Delays: Early Identification and Evaluation. Pediatrics. 2013;131(6). Available at: www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/131/6/e2016.

Quality developmental screenings are essential to quality surveillance.

Quality Developmental Screenings Are Essential to Quality Surveillance There is much to praise in the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Clinical Report, “Motor Delays: Early Identification and Evaluation” (Pediatrics. 2013;131:e2016– e2027). The expert panel provided helpful guidance, useful resources, and placed invaluable emphasis on a 48-month visit to evaluate fine motor and other skills esse...

Cri du Chat Syndrome: a Case Report with Recurrent Pneumonia and Chronic Stridor

Introduction Cri du chat syndrome is a rare genetic disorder due to deletion of variable length of short arm of chromosome 5(5p). It mainly presents with typical cat like cry, facial dysmorphism, poor growth with feeding problems and severe cognitive, speech, and motor delays. Case Report We present here a one year old child who did not presented with typical features but presented with recurre...

Fine motor skill predicts expressive language in infant siblings of children with autism.

We investigated whether fine motor and expressive language skills are related in the later-born siblings of children with autism (heightened-risk, HR infants) who are at increased risk for language delays. We observed 34 HR infants longitudinally from 12 to 36 months. We used parent report and standardized observation measures to assess fine motor skill from 12 to 24 months in HR infants (Study...

Relation between early motor delay and later communication delay in infants at risk for autism.

BACKGROUND Motor delays have been reported in retrospective studies of young infants who later develop Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs). OBJECTIVE In this study, we prospectively compared the gross motor development of a cohort at risk for ASDs; infant siblings of children with ASDs (AU sibs) to low risk typically developing (LR) infants. METHODS 24 AU sibs and 24 LR infants were observed a...