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ArticleDevelopmental medicine and child neurology2026

Selective Control Assessment of the Lower Extremity for Infants and Toddlers (Mini-SCALE): Development and validation of a clinical assessment.

Loretta A Staudt, Barbara Sargent, Lillian Chen, Eileen G Fowler

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Loretta A StaudtDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery and Department of Pediatrics, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8089-9911
Barbara SargentDivision of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2261-6610
Lillian ChenDepartment of Medicine Statistics Core, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Eileen G FowlerDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Center for Cerebral Palsy at UCLA/Orthopaedic Institute for Children, Tarjan Center at UCLA, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3806-4064

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UCLA Clinical Translational Science InstituteUL1TR001881 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI ARLEEN F. BROWN, ARASH NAEIM · 2016 to 2026
$118.1M
Cerebral Palsy FoundationNational Center for Advancing Translational Science of the National Institutes of Health under the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute grant UL1TR001881NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001881The Shapiro Family FoundationThe Stone Foundation
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Abstract

aimTo investigate the validity of Selective Control Assessment of the Lower Extremity for Infants and Toddlers (Mini-SCALE), an adaptation of Selective Control Assessment of the Lower Extremity (SCALE), in young children aged from 3 months to less than 4 years.

methodMini-SCALE was modified from SCALE and reviewed by 16 experienced clinicians to establish content validity. For convergent validity, Mini-SCALE was compared to the Developmental Assessment of Young Children, Second Edition, Gross Motor subdomain (DAYC-2 GM) for 50 participants (aged 4-46 months, 29 males) with cerebral palsy (CP) (n = 20), at risk for CP (n = 9), and typically developing participants (n = 21) using a prospective cross-sectional design. For known-group validity, the scores of children with or at risk for CP were compared to typically developing children using the Welch's two-sample t-test.

resultsContent validity was strong with 96.6% (range = 75%-100%) expert agreement on 54 statements about content, administration, and grading. Convergent validity was strong between Mini-SCALE and the DAYC-2 GM (Spearman's rank correlation coefficient, r

interpretationMini-SCALE is a valid measure of selective motor control for young children with or at risk for CP.

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Cerebral PalsyDisability EvaluationLower ExtremityMotor SkillsChild DevelopmentChild, PreschoolCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansInfantMaleProspective StudiesReproducibility of Results

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