Normale ontwikkeling Infant and toddler development
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 90% Of the normgroup consists of healthy children, representative for the Dutch population regarding parental education, geografic location, and etnic origin. Concerning age, 17 agegroups will be used: these vary from 16 days to 1 months and 15 days gradually to 39 months and 0 days to 43 months and 15 days. The normgroups consists of 50% boys and 50% girls. However, 10% Of the data come from assessments of children with risk factors (e.g. premature birth, delayed language development, symtoms within the autistic spectrum) or a special condition (e.g. Down syndrome or Cerebral Palsy), in order to improve representativeness of the normgroup.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 90% (N=1530) of the normgroup consists of healthy children without risk factors or specific conditions, such as, prematurity; low birthweight; hospital admittance during the study; severe sensory impairments; respiratory disorder; intraventricular hemorrhage; inborn errors of metabolism; one of the following diagnoses: attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, chromosomal abnormality, congenital infections, disorder due to prenatal exposure to toxic substances, disorders repflecting disturbance of the development of the nervous system, genetic or congenital disorder, mental retardation. However for 10% (N=170) of the sample one of these risk factors or special conditions explicitly forms a selection criterium.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The primary study outcome are the Dutch norms for the Bayley III including validation and reliability studies done in subgroups of the healthy children. The validation study concerns the following developmental assessments: the Ages and Stages Questionnaires (ASQ; Squires, Potter & Bricker, 1999; ASQ-SE; Squires et al., 2002) for children between 2 and 60 months old; de Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI, Wechsler, 2002) for children between 30 and 42 months old; the Reynell test for language comprehension (Van Eldik, Schlichting, Lutje Spelberg, B.F. van der Meulen & Sj. van der Meulen, 1995) and the Schlichting test for language expression (Schlichting, van Eldik, Lutje Spelberg, Sj. van der Meulen & B.F. van der Meulen, 1995) for children between 15 and 27 months old; as wel as the old version of the Dutch Bayley scales, BSID-II-NL (Van der Meulen, Ruiter, Lutje Spelberg & Smrkovsky, 2002). | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Parent questionnaires inform on parenting, personality, and family background characteristics that may affect child development. This information is needed for descriptive purposes and may be used in relation to evaluate children with extreme scores. | — |
Countries
Netherlands