Cognitive-perceptual abilities of a neurologically impaired infant: an alternative assessment strategy.
A 26-month-old boy with quadriplegia, untestable using traditional developmental tests, was assessed using a visual-discrimination paradigm (i.e. habituation-dishabituation). The results were interpreted as evidence that this infant could visually attend to, and discriminate between photographic slides varying in shape and/or colour. It is suggested that this paradigm may eventually be used as an alternative clinical testing protocol for assessing the perceptual-cognitive abilities of CNS-damage infants.
D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002547:Cerebral Palsy / Q000175:diagnosis; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D006185:Habituation, Psychophysiologic; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009128:Muscle Spasticity / Q000175:diagnosis; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011782:Quadriplegia / Q000175:diagnosis; D014796:Visual Perception