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Most of the information about the effects of in utero drug exposure on developmental progress has been confined primarily to the newborn period1–4. Specifically, the area of motor development has not been adequately described for the period of early infancy. Previously infants born to drug-using mothers were tested using the Motor Scale of the Bayley Scales of Infant Development (BSID). Results showed that the motor behavior of drug-exposed infants fell within the normal range through two years of age. These findings were surprising to the staff working with the drug-exposed infants since their intuitive clinical judgement was that these infants did not compare to normal non-drug-exposed infants of the same age. They felt that a difference in development did indeed exist, even though the BSID was not able to detect one. A closer look at the Motor Scale of the BSID6 finds it to have few items for each age range. Also it provides more of a check list of motor development rather than a qualitative assessment.
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Schneider, J.W. (1988). Motor Assessment and Parent Education Beyond the Newborn Period. In: Chasnoff, I.J. (eds) Drugs, Alcohol, Pregnancy and Parenting. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2627-1_10
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