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Psychomotor Evaluation of Children Attending Child Education Centers in the South of Brazil
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Yamaguchi, Bruna; Silva, Adriano Zanardi; Araujo, Luize Bueno; Guimarães, Ana Tereza Bittencourt; Israel, Vera Lúcia – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Objective: The aim of this cross-sectional study was to evaluate the neurological/psychomotor development of children aged 0-5 years attending Child Education Centers in Brazil. Method: This developmental assessment included a screening test to identify which variables could be associated with risks for developmental delays. A total of 444…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Preschool Children, Child Care Centers, Child Development
A New Approach for the Quantitative Evaluation of Drawings in Children with Learning Disabilities
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Galli, Manuela; Vimercati, Sara Laura; Stella, Giacomo; Caiazzo, Giorgia; Norveti, Federica; Onnis, Francesca; Rigoldi, Chiara; Albertini, Giorgio – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
A new method for a quantitative and objective description of drawing and for the quantification of drawing ability in children with learning disabilities (LD) is hereby presented. Twenty-four normally developing children (N) (age 10.6 [plus or minus] 0.5) and 18 children with learning disabilities (LD) (age 10.3 [plus or minus] 2.4) took part to…
Descriptors: Childrens Art, Learning Disabilities, Screening Tests, Freehand Drawing
A Comparison of Language Screening Methods.
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Dodge, Gordon R. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1980
Four hundred eighty-six preschool children were screened with the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) and the Preschool Language Scale (PLS). Children who failed the screening were referred for a formal language assessment. Results indicated that the DDST is slightly more effective than the PLS in identifying preschool children who need…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Exceptional Child Research, Language Handicaps, Preschool Education
The Concept and Practice of Second-Level Screening.
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Teska, James A.; Stoneburner, Robert L. – Psychology in the Schools, 1980
Results demonstrate that the second-level screening procedure is an effective method for ferreting out children in need of full-scale psychological evaluation to determine areas of handicapping condition and generation of appropriate services. (Author)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Disability Identification, Educational Diagnosis, Followup Studies
The Use of the Denver Developmental Screening Test in Infant Welfare Clinics.
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Jaffe, M.; And Others – Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 1980
Results of a single Denver Developmental Screening Test performance on 823 infants attending maternal and child health centers were compared with developmental information recorded by public health nurses during routine well baby care of these same infants. Journal Avaliability: J.B. Lippincott Co; E. Washington Sq., Philadelphia, PA 19105.…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Evaluation Methods, Exceptional Child Research, Identification
Standardization of the Denver Developmental Screening Test on Infants from Yucatan, Mexico.
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Solomons, Hope C. – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1982
Standardization of the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) on 288 babies raning in age from two to 54 weeks in Yucatan, Mexico, yielded such findings as that subtest scores increased with age, and that the DDST failed to identify a "questionable" 16 or 17 babies with borderline scores on the Bayley Motor Scale. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Developmental Disabilities, Disability Identification, Foreign Countries
Improving the Sensitivity of the Language Sector of the Denver Developmental Screening Test.
Glascoe, Frances P.; Borowitz, Kathleen C. – Diagnostique, 1988
The Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) and an expressive language measure were administered to 114 children (aged 24 to 74 months) suspected of developmental difficulties. The DDST did not identify the majority of children who failed the expressive language screening, even after cutoff scores were made more rigorous. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Educational Diagnosis, Evaluation Methods, Expressive Language, Handicap Identification