Basic Motor Skills of Children With Down Syndrome: Creating a Motor Growth Curve
Publication date
2020-10-01
Authors
Lauteslager, Peter E.M.
Volman, M.J.M.
Lauteslager, Timo
Van den Heuvel, M. E.
Jongerling, Joran
Klugkist, Irene
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Abstract
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.
Keywords
Down syndrome, motor development, motor growth curve, Taverne, Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Citation
Lauteslager, P E M, Volman, M C J M, Lauteslager, T, Van den Heuvel, M E, Jongerling, J & Klugkist, I G 2020, 'Basic Motor Skills of Children With Down Syndrome : Creating a Motor Growth Curve', Pediatric physical therapy : the official publication of the Section on Pediatrics of the American Physical Therapy Association, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 375-380. https://doi.org/10.1097/PEP.0000000000000743