Analysis of motor development of infants from zero to 18 months of age: representativeness of the motors items of the alberta infant motor scale by age and posture

Authors

  • Raquel Saccani Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; Escola de Educação Física
  • Nadia C. Valentini Auburn University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7322/jhgd.19979

Keywords:

desenvolvimento infantil, destreza motora, fatores de risco, child development, motor skills, risk factors

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: evaluate the motor development of infants from 0 to 18 months and the representativeness of the motors items in the child assessment proposed by Alberta Infant Motor Scale. METHOD: transversal and observational study, causal comparative, where in participated 561 infants, evaluated with the AIMS, aging from 0 to 18 months, coming from Kinder gardens, Children Education schools, Health Basic Units of Rio Grande do Sul. RESULTS: The motor development of 63, 5% were considered with a normal for their age and 36,5% presented delays or delay´s risk, is that, the infants aging from 3 to 12 months were the ones with the worst development. It was found inferiority in the motor behaviors regarding the prono and standing postures and a bigger AIMS sensibility analysing motor behaviors in the first life year, considering that it is hard to notice children development from 12 months. CONCLUSIONS: observed progressive sequence of appearance of motor abilities in the evaluated postures, although some children were considered with an inferior motor development according to what was expected by their age. The scale has a inbalance, a discontinuity in intensity of difficulty´s levels, at diferents ages. It is suggested that the age-factor, postural control and evaluation instrument influenced in the motor development of the infants.

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2010-12-01

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Vol. 20 No. 3 (2010)

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