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Development and Initial Validation of the Preschooler Gross Motor Quality Scale
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Sun, Shih-Heng; Zhu, Yi-Ching; Shih, Ching-Lin; Lin, Chien-Hui; Wu, Sheng K. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
Motor skills have great impact on children in adapting to an environment and developing interpersonal interaction, cognition, and social behavior. Understanding what children can do and how they perform it is essential. Most motor tests seldom contain quality evaluation in the items or criteria. The purpose of this study was to develop and…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Test Validity, Preschool Children, Measures (Individuals)
Stability and Change of Cognitive Attributes in Children with Uneven/Delayed Cognitive Development from Preschool through Childhood
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Yang, Pinchen; Lung, For-Wey; Jong, Yuh-Jyh; Hsu, Hsiu-Yi; Chen, Cheng-Chung – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
As part of an ongoing clinical service program for children with developmental delay in an Asian developing country, we analyzed the cognitive attributes of 362 Taiwanese children (average age 48.5 plus or minus 12.9 month-old) with uneven/delayed cognitive development as they were assessed repeatedly with average duration of 39.7 plus or…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Gender Differences, Mental Retardation, Autism
Development of a Preschool Developmental Assessment Scale for Assessment of Developmental Disabilities
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Leung, Cynthia; Mak, Rose; Lau, Vanessa; Cheung, Jasmine; Lam, Catherine – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
The aim of this paper was to describe the development of the cognitive domain of the Preschool Developmental Assessment Scale (PDAS) for assessment of preschool children with developmental disabilities. The initial version of the cognitive domain consisted of 87 items. They were administered to 324 preschool children, including 240 children from…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Preschool Children, Measures (Individuals), Test Construction
Facial Expression Recognition: Can Preschoolers with Cochlear Implants and Hearing Aids Catch It?
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Wang, Yifang; Su, Yanjie; Fang, Ping; Zhou, Qingxia – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Tager-Flusberg and Sullivan (2000) presented a cognitive model of theory of mind (ToM), in which they thought ToM included two components--a social-perceptual component and a social-cognitive component. Facial expression recognition (FER) is an ability tapping the social-perceptual component. Previous findings suggested that normal hearing…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Nonverbal Communication, Deafness, Language Aptitude
Development of the Language Subtest in a Developmental Assessment Scale to Identify Chinese Preschool Children with Special Needs
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Wong, Anita M. -Y.; Leung, Cynthia; Siu, Elaine K. -L.; Lam, Catherine C. -C.; Chan, Grace P. -S. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
This study reports on the development of the language subtest in the Preschool Developmental Assessment Scale (PDAS) for Cantonese-Chinese speaking children. A pilot pool of 158 items covering the two language modalities and the three language domains was developed. This initial item set was subsequently revised based on Rasch analyses of data…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Language Impairments, Measures (Individuals), Test Construction
Development of the Little Developmental Coordination Disorder Questionnaire for Preschoolers and Preliminary Evidence of Its Psychometric Properties in Israel
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Rihtman, Tanya; Wilson, Brenda N.; Parush, Shula – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Purpose: The early identification of motor coordination challenges before school age may enable close monitoring of a child's development and perhaps ameliorate some of the social, psychological and behavioral sequela that often accompany unrecognized Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD). The purpose of this study was to develop and assess…
Descriptors: Evidence, Control Groups, Research Tools, Content Validity