ArticlePediatric research2025
Early gross motor performance is associated with concurrent prelinguistic and social development.
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- Gross motor performance of infants with an at-home wearable measurement and the Alberta Infant Motor Scale: A concurrent validity study.Developmental medicine and child neurology · 2026Observational
- Clinical and Research Insights from Pre-Emptive Early Intervention for Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Case Series.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Trade-Offs Between Simplifying Inertial Measurement Unit-Based Movement Recordings and the Attainability of Different Levels of Analyses: Systematic Assessment of Method Variations.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundTo study how early gross motor development links to concurrent prelinguistic and social development.
methodsWe recruited a population-based longitudinal sample of 107 infants between 6 and 21 months of age. Gross motor performance was quantified using novel wearable technology for at-home recordings of infants' spontaneous activity. The infants' prelinguistic and social development was assessed in parallel with a standardized parental questionnaire (Infant Toddler Checklist). The developmental trajectories of motor, prelinguistic, and social performance were inspected longitudinally at individual level, and correlated to each other to measure the relative, age-adjusted advance in performance (z-scores).
resultsAdvanced gross motor maturation (higher z-score) links to more advanced prelinguistic development (β = 0.033, p = 0.016, R
conclusionWe introduce a novel approach that measures individual level gross motor development longitudinally at high resolution from child's spontaneous movements at home. This approach shows that age-adjusted relative advance in motor performance is linked to concurrent prelinguistic and social development, supporting the idea of developmental interaction across neurocognitive domains. IMPACT: Early gross motor, prelinguistic, and social developments show trackable idiosyncratic trajectories. Maturity in gross motor performance links to concurrent prelinguistic and social development. Gross motor performance can be assessed reliably and objectively from infants' spontaneous activity using unsupervised wearable recordings in their native environment, the homes. The present methodology with longitudinal quantitative assessments and age-adjusted modeling with z-scores introduce a potential paradigm shift to studying early neurodevelopment in the context of pediatric health, benchmarking of therapeutic interventions, and other developmental studies.
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