TY - JOUR
T1 - Basic Motor Skills of Children With Down Syndrome
T2 - Creating a Motor Growth Curve
AU - Lauteslager, Peter E.M.
AU - Volman, M. Chiel J.M.
AU - Lauteslager, Timo
AU - Van den Heuvel, M. E.
AU - Jongerling, Joran
AU - Klugkist, Irene G.
PY - 2020/10/1
Y1 - 2020/10/1
N2 - PURPOSE: To create a motor growth curve based on the Test of Basic Motor Skills for Children with Down Syndrome (BMS) and estimate the age of achieving BMS milestones. METHODS: A multilevel exponential model was applied to create a motor growth curve based on BMS data from 119 children with Down syndrome (DS) aged 2 months to 5 years. Logistic regression was applied to estimate the 50% probability of achieving BMS milestones. RESULTS: The BMS growth curve had the largest increase during infancy with smaller increases as children approached the predicted maximum score. The age at which children with DS have a 50% probability of achieving the milestone sitting was 22 months, for crawling 25 months, and for walking 38 months. CONCLUSIONS: The creation of a BMS growth curve provides a standardization of the gross motor development of children with DS. Physical therapists then may monitor a child's individual progress and improve clinical decisions.
AB - PURPOSE: To create a motor growth curve based on the Test of Basic Motor Skills for Children with Down Syndrome (BMS) and estimate the age of achieving BMS milestones. METHODS: A multilevel exponential model was applied to create a motor growth curve based on BMS data from 119 children with Down syndrome (DS) aged 2 months to 5 years. Logistic regression was applied to estimate the 50% probability of achieving BMS milestones. RESULTS: The BMS growth curve had the largest increase during infancy with smaller increases as children approached the predicted maximum score. The age at which children with DS have a 50% probability of achieving the milestone sitting was 22 months, for crawling 25 months, and for walking 38 months. CONCLUSIONS: The creation of a BMS growth curve provides a standardization of the gross motor development of children with DS. Physical therapists then may monitor a child's individual progress and improve clinical decisions.
KW - Down syndrome
KW - motor development
KW - motor growth curve
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85092537632
U2 - 10.1097/PEP.0000000000000743
DO - 10.1097/PEP.0000000000000743
M3 - Article
C2 - 32991564
AN - SCOPUS:85092537632
SN - 1538-005X
VL - 32
SP - 375
EP - 380
JO - Pediatric physical therapy : the official publication of the Section on Pediatrics of the American Physical Therapy Association
JF - Pediatric physical therapy : the official publication of the Section on Pediatrics of the American Physical Therapy Association
IS - 4
ER -