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A new tool to track infant development, starting at just 16 days old
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Northwestern Now: Summaries
The original NIH Toolbox, although widely implemented in clinical and research settings, was designed to measure children from 3 years of age through adulthood.
A special eight-article issue of the journal Infant Behavior and Development dedicated to the development and validation of the NIH Baby Toolbox can be accessed online and will appear in print this September.
Supporting positive developmental outcomesThere were considerable challenges in creating the new NIH Baby Toolbox.
The NIH Baby Toolbox overcomes these obstacles by incorporating video to present content and documents infants engaged in assessment tasks.
“Now, armed with the first-ever standardized, validated and widely available assessment tool, clinicians will be able to identify infant development and detect when development is going awry,” Waxman said.
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