TY - JOUR
T1 - The Early Motor Questionnaire (EMQ)
T2 - A parental report measure of early motor development
AU - Libertus, Klaus
AU - Landa, Rebecca J.
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank the children and their families for their generous participation in and commitment to this research. We also thank the research staff at the Kennedy Krieger Institute Center for Autism and Related Disorders. Financial support was provided by NIMH grant R01 MH59630 to RL, and by an Autism Science Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship to KL.
PY - 2013/12
Y1 - 2013/12
N2 - Children's early motor skills are critical for development across language, social, and cognitive domains, and warrant close examination. However, examiner-administered motor assessments are time consuming and expensive. Parent-report questionnaires offer an efficient alternative, but validity of parent report is unclear and only few motor questionnaires exist. In this report, we use cross-sectional and longitudinal data to investigate the validity of parent report in comparison to two examiner-administered measures (Mullen Scales of Early Learning, MSEL; Peabody Developmental Motor Scales, PDMS-2), and introduce a new parent-report measure called the Early Motor Questionnaire (EMQ). Results indicate strong correlations between parent report on the EMQ and a child's age, robust concurrent and predictive validity of parent report with both the MSEL and PDMS-2, and good test-retest reliability of parent report on the EMQ. Together, our findings support the conclusion that parents provide dependable accounts of early motor and cognitive development.
AB - Children's early motor skills are critical for development across language, social, and cognitive domains, and warrant close examination. However, examiner-administered motor assessments are time consuming and expensive. Parent-report questionnaires offer an efficient alternative, but validity of parent report is unclear and only few motor questionnaires exist. In this report, we use cross-sectional and longitudinal data to investigate the validity of parent report in comparison to two examiner-administered measures (Mullen Scales of Early Learning, MSEL; Peabody Developmental Motor Scales, PDMS-2), and introduce a new parent-report measure called the Early Motor Questionnaire (EMQ). Results indicate strong correlations between parent report on the EMQ and a child's age, robust concurrent and predictive validity of parent report with both the MSEL and PDMS-2, and good test-retest reliability of parent report on the EMQ. Together, our findings support the conclusion that parents provide dependable accounts of early motor and cognitive development.
KW - Autism
KW - Motor development
KW - Parent report
KW - Questionnaire
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U2 - 10.1016/j.infbeh.2013.09.007
DO - 10.1016/j.infbeh.2013.09.007
M3 - Article
C2 - 24140841
AN - SCOPUS:84885971610
SN - 0163-6383
VL - 36
SP - 833
EP - 842
JO - Infant Behavior and Development
JF - Infant Behavior and Development
IS - 4
ER -