Correlations between Gesell scores in infancy and performance on verbal and non-verbal tests in early childhood.
Since infant developmental tests are heavily loaded with perceptual-motor items and are relatively free of auditory-verbal items, it was hypothesized that performance on infant tests would correlate higher with those later tests which measure non-verbal skills and lower with those tests that measure mostly verbal skills. The Gesell performance of 26 normal, male white infants at 7, 9 and 15 mo. correlated significantly and consistently with performance on the Merrill-Palmer Scale at 27 mo. and the visual-motor channel of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities at 5 yr. and showed consistently non-significant correlations with the Stanford Binet at 3 yr., the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test at 5 yr., and the auditory-vocal channel of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities at 5 yr.
D000367:Age Factors; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009048:Motor Skills; D011581:Psychological Tests; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014796:Visual Perception