Cognitive-perceptual Abilities of a Neurologically Impaired Infant: an Alternative Assessment Strategy
- 1 June 1984
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wiley in Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
- Vol. 26 (3) , 391-395
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8749.1984.tb04458.x
Abstract
A 26-month-old boy with quadriplegia, untestable using traditional developmental tests, was assessed using a visual-discrimination paradigm (i.e. habituation-dishabituation). The results were interpreted as evidence that this infant could visually attend to, and discriminate between photographic slides varying in shape and/or colour. It is suggested that this paradigm may eventually be used as an alternative clinical testing protocol for assessing the perceptual-cognitive abilities of CNS-damage infants.Keywords
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