Systematic Review of the Main Motor Scales for Clinical Assessment of Individuals with down Syndrome

ABSTRACT

Objective: The aim of the present review was to identify the motor scales currently used to assess individuals with Down Syndrome (DS).

Method: PubMed, WOS and BVS databases were systematically searched to identify the most relevant published studies that used motor scales in the evaluation of individuals with DS.

Results: Of the 99 studies that met the eligibility criteria in this process, 20 experimental and observational studies were found to fully meet the eligibility criteria.

Conclusion: We identified several motor scales including the Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS), Test of Infant Motor Performance (TIMP), BAYLEY, Peabody Gross Motor Scale (PGMS-PDMS-GM), Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM), Movement Assessment Battery for Children (MABC) and Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI).

KEYWORDS:

• Down syndrome
• motor scale
• motor development
• disability inventory
• trisomy 21

Authors’ contributions

All authors participated in the design, acquisition and interpretation of data. All authors drafted and reviewed the manuscript. All authors read and gave final approval of the version submitted for publication.

Declaration of interest

The authors report no conflicts of interest. All authors were responsible for the content and writing of this paper.

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Funding

The present study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001, and supported by the Brazilian agency CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico) process number [442456/2016-6 and 8887.091039/2014-01].