Shimaa Mohamed Refaat <br/><br/>
Standardization of fine motor development of normal children using peabody developmental motor scale-II /  
 معايرة النمو المهارى الحركى للأطفال الأسوياء باستخدام  مقياس النمو الحركى - بى بودى 
Shimaa Mohamed Refaat ; Supervised Faten Hassan Abdelazeim , Amany Mousa Mohamed 
 - Cairo :   Shimaa Mohamed Refaat ,   2016 
 - 133 P. :   charts , facsimiles ;   25cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Physical Therapy - Department of Growth and Development Disorder in Pediatrics 
<br/><br/> Backround: Peabody developmental motor scale is considered one of the most commonly used tool to assess motor development in preschool children. Objectives: To establish norms for the Egyptian children in fine motor developmental skills through cross-sectional study design using PDMS-2 and comparing the results with the normative sample of the PDMS-2. Methods: 1416 of normal Egyptian children, ranged in age from two to six years old participated in this study and collected from greater Cairo area to represent Egypt. The participants involved into seven groups according to their chronological age after screening by Portage Scale and the evaluation was applied once monthly to each group using PDMS-2 for six successive months in fine motor area of development in longitudinal pattern. The present study revealed significant difference for measured subtest items of fine motor development for tested Egyptian children when compared to the normative data of PDMS-2 using Z-scores. The results of the present study revealed a significant difference between the Egyptian and the normative European sample in the seven groups and also between boys and girls. This reflects the importance of standardized scale for the fine motor development in the Egyptian children 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Egyptian children Fine motor development Portage scale