Bayley Scales of Infant Development II Individually administered to infants and children to assess their current level of developmental functioning

g (1) Consists of 3 scales: the Mental Scale, Motor Scale, and Behavioural Rating Scale (1) o Assess development in 5 domains; cognitive, language, motor, socioeconomical, and adaptive behaviour Developed for children between 1 and 42 months of age, and normal values were determined from a sample of 1700 children (1,2) The scoring system consists of credit, no credit, refused, omit or caregiver report, however one point is only given if child receives a credit on an item, no point for the others (1) High level of interscorer agreement levels (1) Benefits of choosing BSID: Compatibility with the BSID II Mental Scale, little need for equipment, and a combined score for both fine and gross motor areas (2) Motor Scale assesses degree of control of the body, coordination of the large muscles, finer manipulatory skills of the hands and fingers, dynamic movement, dynamic praxis, postural imitation and sterognosis (2) Classifies performance based on whole number SD from the mean, into categories of accelerated, within normal limits, mildly delayed and significantly delayed (2) Converts raw scores into age-equivalents and standard scores The standardized scoring procedure of the BSID-II does not allow for determination of separate scores of gross and fine motor function (3) o This can cause inflation of the psychomotor developmental index (PDI) on the BSID-II as strong fine motor skills may cover for delayed gross motor skills (can cause overall score inflation) PDMS-II Designed to estimate childs motor competence, compare gross and fine motor disparity, provide qualitative and quantitative aspects of individual skills, evaluate a childs progress and provides a research tool (1) Changes in the PDMS-II include new normative data, new validity studies, new scoring criteria with clearly specified performance levels for scores of two, one or zero (1) High test-retest reliability scores for two groups of children (1) Benefits for choosing PDMS-2: separate scores for fine and gross motor skills and more test items in the fine motor area (2) Normative data determined on 2003 children (2) Consists of 6 subtests: reflexes, stationary, locomotion, grasping, object manipulation and visual motor integration Classifies performance primarily based on 10 point increments into categories of very superior, superior, above average, below average, poor and very poor (2) Converts raw scores into age-equivalents and standard scores

Unlike the BSID-II, makes a clear distinction between gross and fine motor items allowing for independent scoring of gross and fine motor abilities. Assesses both qualitative and quantitative aspects of gross and fine motor development in young children; recommends specific interventions You can use the PDMS-2 Motor Activity Program to plan individualized intervention. This spiralbound book contains concrete, practical suggestions for helping the child acquire fine and gross motor skills. It is highly useful in identifying goals, objectives, and activities The quantitative information generated by the PDMS-2 is helpful in monitoring the child's progress during remediation.

(1) Connolly B, Dalton L, Smith JB, Lamberth NG, McCay B, Murphy W. Concurrent validity of the Bayley Scales of Infant Development II (BSID-II) Motor Scale and the Peabody Developmental Motor Scale II (PDMS-2) in 12 month-old infants. Ped Phys Ther. 2006;18:190-196. (2) Provost B, Heimeri S, McClain C, Kim N, Lopez B, Kodituwakku P. Concurrent validity of the Bayley Scales of Infant Development II Motor Scale and the Peabody Developmental Motor Scales-2 in children with developmental delays. Ped Phys Ther. 2004;16:149-156. (3) Bayley N. Bayley Scales of Infant Development, Second Edition. New York: The Psychological Corporation; 1993