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Brief Report: Performance of Australian Children at One Year of Age on the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development (Version III)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2012

Karen Walker ,
Nadia Badawi ,
Robert Halliday  and
Sharon Laing
Karen Walker*
Affiliation:
Grace Centre for Newborn Care, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, The University of Sydney. karenw4@chw.edu.au
Nadia Badawi
Affiliation:
Grace Centre for Newborn Care, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, The University of Sydney.
Robert Halliday
Affiliation:
Grace Centre for Newborn Care, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, The University of Sydney.
Sharon Laing
Affiliation:
Grace Centre for Newborn Care, The Children's Hospital at Westmead and Department of Psychology, Macquarie University.
*
*Address for correspondence: Karen Walker, Research Officer, Grace Centre for Newborn Care, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia.
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Abstract

This article reports mean scores on the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development (Version III) for 211 randomly selected healthy term (≥ 37 weeks gestation) Australian infants at one year of age. Mean scores were significantly different from standardised norms in all subscales except fine motor. Australian infants scored higher on cognitive and receptive language (p < .01) and lower on expressive language and gross motor (ps < .01) subscales. These findings raise questions regarding the validity of this test in the Australian population and suggest that the test be re-normed on Australian children for valid interpretation of scores in this cultural context.

Keywords

Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Developmentdevelopmental outcomesvaliditycultural norms
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The Educational and Developmental Psychologist , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , 01 June 2010 , pp. 54 - 58
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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