Figure 1.
Distribution of the prevalence of severe neurodevelopmental impairment per 1,000 children in select countries.
Distribution of prevalence of severe neurodevelopmental impairment per 1,000 children in select countries. Taken from Durkin, The Epidemiology of Developmental Disabilities in Low-Income Countries, Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews p. 207 (2002) [2].
Table 1.
Summary of major risk factors for early childhood neurodisability.
Figure 2.
Conceptual and methodological challenges in the assessment of early child development in the context of the INTERGROWTH-21st Project.
Conceptual and methodological challenges in the multi-dimensional assessment of early childhood neurodevelopment across low-, middle- and high-income settings (black boxes) and the unique opportunity provided by the INTERGROWTH-21st Project to explore some of these issues (red boxes).
Table 2.
Inclusion criteria to be met by mothers at booking for recruitment in the INTERGROWTH-21st Project.
Table 3.
Criteria to be met by a neurodevelopment measure for inclusion in the INTERGROWTH-21st Project.
Table 4.
Challenges to the selection, design and development of a neurodevelopment assessment for use in young children and in multiple international settings in the INTERGROWTH-21st Project.
Table 5.
Neurodevelopment tools selected following review of candidate tools by scientific advisory panel.
Table 6.
Analysis of candidate vision tests against selection criteria.
Table 7.
Analysis of candidate FPL techniques to assess vision in young children.
Table 8.
Analysis of candidate cognitive, language, motor, behavior and attention tests against selection criteria.
Table 9.
Constituent items and scoring sheet of the INTERGROWTH-21st Neurodevelopment Assessment.
Table 10.
Analysis of candidate auditory function tests against selection criteria.
Table 11.
Analysis of candidate sleep measures against selection criteria.
Figure 3.
Components of the INTERGROWTH-21st Neurodevelopment Package.