Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology

The Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS) is a gross motor assessment with excellent psychometric properties and clinical utility when used face-to-face. The AIMS assessment delivered via synchronous telehealth shows excellent agreement with face-to-face assessment. Telehealth is a suitable alternative to face-to-face AIMS assessment, particularly for older infants.

Several functional connections between ROIs in the somatomotor (purple) and the default mode network (gray) were significantly associated with the MABC-2 “aiming and catching” sub-domain in the HIE cohort in comparison to controls. The colors of the connections represents the correlation coefficient with either negative (light blue to magenta) or positive (green to red) slope.

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A core outcome set to assess chronic pain interference and impact on emotional functioning for children and young people with cerebral palsy.

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Many children with unilateral cerebral palsy experience difficulties in daily-life executive functions, while better manual ability appears as a significant predictor of inhibition-related behavioral difficulties. Daily-life executive functions seem to be mainly driven by autism spectrum disorder, nevertheless, the executive-function performance on an individual level revealed a tendency of children with worse manual abilities exhibiting worse daily-life executive functions. In addition, daily-life executive functions had low to moderate relation to bimanual performance, with most associations being found between observed executive functions and daily hand-use experience. Although further research is needed to shed light on this, our results underscore the necessity of incorporating neuropsychological evaluation in daily common practice.

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Overall, we found that more helpful and better resourced community environments improved physical activity and quality of life for 4–5-year-old children, while children who were more involved in their community activities tended to have higher quality of life. These findings were similar for children who were born < 30 weeks’ gestation and at term. This paper highlights the potential for interventions which promote community participation or improve community environments when aiming to support physical activity and quality of life for preschool age children.

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Spanish translation of this Original Article is available in the online issue.

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This original article is commented by Sellers on pages 974–975 of this issue.

General Movements Assessment and Hammersmith Infant Neurologic Exam support early diagnosis of cerebral palsy.

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GMFM-66-IS scores were supported by strong construct validity and moderate responsiveness evidence for use with infants and toddlers at high risk for CP.

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This original article is commented by Knox on pages 973–974 of this issue.