Salavati, S. (Sahar) (2016) The association between the early motor repertoire and language development in low-risk term infants. thesis, Medicine.
Full text available on request.Abstract
Predicting the outcome on various domains of development can be very important for the course of an infant’s development, especially if the infant is preterm or experienced any complication during early life. Such a prediction is still a challenge. A method with both a high sensitivity and specificity for predicting the infant’s neurological (dys)function is the Prechtl General Movements Assessment (GMA). Together with other movements and patterns, the GMA is referred to as the early motor repertoire. We retrospectively assessed associations between the early motor repertoire and language development in a prospective cohort study of low-risk term born infants, conducted at the Institute of Physiology of the Medical University of Graz. All infants were videoed at the age of 3 and 5 months and were later assessed for language performance at 4;7 and 10;5 (years; months). The assessment of the early motor repertoire was performed using the Motor Optimality Score. Significant and trending associations between certain aspects of the early motor repertoire and different language tests were found. Fidgety movements at 3 months were positively significant associated with expressive vocabulary at 4;7 years. No associations between fidgety movements at 5 months and language development were found. Negative significant associations between concurrent movements at 3 months and language outcome, namely between the number of normal movement patterns and receptive vocabulary and between the number of abnormal movement patterns and articulation at 4;7 years. Between the overall movement character and language outcome at both ages positive significant associations were found. These were the associations between the infants’ movement character at 3 months and expressive vocabulary at 10;5 years (e.g. r = 0.597) and between movement character at 5 months and receptive vocabulary at 4;7 years (e.g. r = 0.586). No significant associations were found between the subscales repertoire of co-existent other movements and posture of the early motor repertoire and language performance. In conclusion, language development is associated with the early motor repertoire and therefore GMA might be a valuable tool for the prediction of language outcome.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Thesis) |
|---|---|
| Supervisor name: | Faculty supervisor: and Bos, Prof. Dr. A.F. |
| Supervisor name: | Second supervisor: and Einspieler, Prof. Dr. C. and Co-supervisor: and Marschik, Assoc.Prof. DDr. P.B. and Medical University of Graz and Institute of Physiology and Research Unit iDN, interdisciplinary Developmental Neuroscie and Graz, Austria |
| Faculty: | Medical Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jun 2020 11:04 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2020 11:04 |
| URI: | https://umcg.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/2386 |
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