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The Uzgiris-Hunt Ordinal Scales of Psychological Development (U-H Scales; Uzgiris & Hunt, 1975) are a set of six scales of cognitive development designed for infants from 1 to 24 months of age. Scales were inspired by the work of Piaget (see entry: Piagetian Stages) and thus are grounded in the theory that development is an “epigenetic process of evolving new, more complex, hierarchical levels of organization in intellect and motivation” (Uzgiris & Hunt, p. 47). The Scales include: Scale I: The Development of Visual Pursuit and the Permanence of Objects, Scale II: The Development of Means for Obtaining Desired Environmental Events, Scale IIIa: The Development of Vocal Imitation, Scale IIIb: The Development of Gestural Imitation, Scale IV: The Development of Operational Causality, Scale V: The Construction of Object Relations in Space, and Scale VI: The Development of Schemes for Relating to Objects.
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Deriving from Piaget’s theory of cognitive...
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Macari, S. (2013). Uzgiris-Hunt Ordinal Scales of Infant Development. In: Volkmar, F.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1698-3_301
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