Gender differences in occurrence of behavioral and emotional problems at the lower grades of elementary school: Association with developmental and behavioral characteristics at 5 years.

Aim: We examined whether developmental status and behavioral problems at age five were related to the occurrence of behavioral and emotional problems in the lower grades of elementary school among non-clinical children who did not receive specialized support for developmental problems in early childhood.

Methods: The participants were 367 (non-clinical: 325) second- and third-grade elementary school children. The mean age at follow-up was 7.

Early behavioural manifestation of Smith-Magenis syndrome (del 17p11.2) in a 4-month-old boy.

Objective: There is little systematic data on early neurodevelopmental functioning of infants with Smith-Magenis syndrome, since early diagnosis is rare.

Methods: A boy with cytogenetically confirmed Smith-Magenis syndrome was videotaped at 4 months and 1 week of age. His posture and spontaneous movements were analysed without knowing the diagnosis.

Movements and postures of infants aged 3 to 5 months: to what extent is their optimality related to perinatal events and to the neurological outcome?

Background: The quality of spontaneous general movements (GMs), assessed in the individual infant, has emerged as one of the most reliable and valid predictors especially of severe neurological impairments.

Aims: To implement a more detailed assessment of GMs and co-existing movements and postural patterns in a rehabilitation clinic, and to examine to what extend is the optimality of movements and postures of infants aged 3 to 5 months related to perinatal events and the neurological outcome.

Study Design: Prospective study of 41 infants (15 boys and 26 girls; 11 infants born preterm) admitted to the Department of Paediatric Neurology and Rehabilitation of the St.

[A follow-up study of 6-year-old kindergarten children at one year after they participated in a pilot medical examination].

A follow-up study of 129 kindergarten children was undertaken in 2007 by the same questionnaire survey among nurses that was conducted as a part of pilot study in 2006. Among 103 children, 86 were comprehensively assessed as "normal", and 17 had been assessed to have difficulties in group action at the pilot medical examination. In the follow-up study, we found that among the children who were previously been assessed as "normal", approximately 90 percent were re-assessed as "normal", though 10 percent of them showed signs of mild delay and/or failure to adapt in group action; and that 65 percent of the 17 children who were assessed to have difficulties in group action at the pilot medical examination showed signs of failure to adapt in group action and/or mild delay.