WHO Developmental Milestones
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Objective[edit | edit source]
The WHO scale aims to link the growth of the child and the motor development in one single reference. The final version of the protocol includes six items: "Sitting without support", "Hands-and-knees crawling", "Standing with assistance", "Walking with assistance", "Standing alone", and "Walking alone". The WHO provides an important information about child's gross motor development in different cultural settings[1].
Intended Population[edit | edit source]
The WHO Motor Development assessment protocol has been designed to capture the gross motor development in the first two years of life in children from different cultural background, and therefore fill an existing gap in knowledge. The Motor Development Study took part in five countries (Ghana, Norway, India, Oman, and the United States) which aimed to analyse the relationship between physical growth and gross motor development in this culturally mixed cohort.
Although the study was conducted with children between 6 and 12 months of age the assessment could be used for patients from different age groups and serve as a baseline for more focused studies of both motor and cognitive development[1].
