scholarly journals Hand Movements in Communicative and Noncommunicative Situations in Very Young Infants: A Preliminary Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Eszter Somogyi ◽  
Laurent Salomon ◽  
Jacqueline Fagard
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Hand Movements ◽  
Language Lateralization ◽  
Early Differentiation ◽  
Young Infants ◽  
Developmental Relationship ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Left Right Asymmetry

As a step toward understanding the developmental relationship between handedness and language lateralization, this longitudinal study investigated how infants (N = 21) move their hands in noncommunicative and communicative situations at 2 weeks and at 3 months of age. The authors looked at whether left-right asymmetry in hand movements and in duration of self-touch appeared across conditions and whether the direction of asymmetry depended on the communicative nature of the situation. The authors found that asymmetries appeared less consistently than suggested in literature and did not only depend on the communicative nature of the situation. Instead, hand activity and self-touch patterns depended on age, the presence of the mother, the degree of novelty of the situation, and the presence of an object. The results partly support previous studies that pointed out an early differentiation of communicative hand movements versus noncommunicative ones in infants. It is in terms of the amount of global hand activity, rather than in those of the laterality of hand movements that this differentiation emerged in this study. At 3 months, infants moved their hands more in the communicative conditions than in the noncommunicative conditions and this difference appeared as a tendency already at 2 weeks of age.

scholarly journals Effects of early spasticity treatment on children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy: a preliminary study

2013 ◽  
Vol 71 (7) ◽  
pp. 453-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marise Bueno Zonta ◽  
Isac Bruck ◽  
Marilene Puppi ◽  
Sandra Muzzolon ◽  
Arnolfo de Carvalho Neto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cerebral Palsy ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Functional Performance ◽  
Gait Pattern ◽  
Hand Movements ◽  
Range Of Movement ◽  
Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy ◽  
Physician Rating ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Function Measure

ObjectiveTo compare motor and functional performance of two groups of children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy (HCP). Only the study group (SG) received early treatment of spasticity with botulinum neurotoxin type A (BXT-A).MethodsGross Motor Function Measure (GMFM), functional performance (Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory - PEDI), range of movement, gait pattern (Physician Rating Scale - PRS) and the speed of hand movements were considered.ResultsThe SG, composed of 11 HCP (45.64±6.3 months), was assessed in relation to the comparison group, composed of 13 HCP (45.92±6.4 months). SG showed higher scores in four of the five GMFM dimensions, which included scores that were statistically significant for dimension B, and higher scores in five of the six areas evaluated in the PEDI. Active wrist extension, the speed of hand movements and PRS score were higher in the SG.ConclusionChildren who received early BXT-A treatment for spasticity showed higher scores in motor and functional performance.

Acceptability of oral antiretrovirals for very young infants – A longitudinal study

2016 ◽  
Vol 511 (2) ◽  
pp. 1149-1150
Author(s):  
Joern Blume ◽  
Siri Wang ◽  
Amwe Aku ◽  
Pamela Zethu Njikelana ◽  
Debra J. Jackson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Young Infants

scholarly journals The developmental relationship between vocabulary and grammar in EAL learners: A longitudinal study

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandra Valentini ◽  
Ludovica Serratrice
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Child Language ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
Developmental Relationship ◽  
The University

This working draft provides details on the methods and results of the following poster presented at the Child Language Symposium at the University of Sheffield on 11th July 2019: The developmental relationship between vocabulary and grammar in EAL learners: A longitudinal study. Please note that this is work in progress and the paper does not include an introduction and only a very minimal discussion.

Inhibition of return in very young infants: a longitudinal study

1999 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillipa R. Butcher ◽  
Alex F. Kalverboer ◽  
Reint.H. Geuze
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Inhibition Of Return ◽  
Young Infants

A preliminary study of group intervention along with basic canine training among traumatized teenagers: A 3-month longitudinal study

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (10) ◽  
pp. 1975-1980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liat Hamama ◽  
Yaira Hamama-Raz ◽  
Keren Dagan ◽  
Hofit Greenfeld ◽  
Chen Rubinstein ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Group Intervention ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Canine Training

Development of Preschoolers' Emotion and False Belief Understanding: A Longitudinal Study

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 645-654 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yifang Wang ◽  
Hongyun Liu ◽  
Yanjie Su
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Developmental Trajectory ◽  
False Belief ◽  
First Year ◽  
False Beliefs ◽  
Location Task ◽  
False Belief Understanding ◽  
Developmental Relationship ◽  
Time Point

To explore the developmental trajectory of emotions (happiness, sadness, anger, and fear) and false belief understanding (an unexpected-location and an unexpected-contents task), we measured the performance of 3- and 4-year-olds 4 times at approximately half-yearly intervals. The results indicated that the children's ability to understand emotions and false beliefs increased significantly at each time point in the first year and a half, but no significant increases were found in the last 6 months. The developmental trajectories of the understanding of emotions and false beliefs were similar during the 2 years, however, the developing track of the emotions of happiness, sadness, fear, and anger were different. Understanding of happiness developed earlier and faster than understanding of sadness, fear, and anger. In regard to understanding false beliefs, the children performed better in the unexpected-contents task than in the unexpected-location task. We found that a developmental relationship existed between emotion and false belief understanding.

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