Describing normal development in an African setting: The utility of the Kilifi Developmental Inventory among young children at the Kenyan coast

Patricia Kitsao-Wekulo; Penny Holding; Amina Abubakar; Jane Kvalsvig; H. Gerry Taylor; Christopher L. King

doi:10.1016/j.lindif.2015.11.011

Describing normal development in an African setting: The utility of the Kilifi Developmental Inventory among young children at the Kenyan coast

Patricia Kitsao-Wekulo, Penny Holding, Amina Abubakar, Jane Kvalsvig, H. Gerry Taylor, Christopher L. King

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The Kilifi Developmental Inventory (KDI) is a tool developed in Kenya for the assessment of psychomotor development in infants and young children. We developed age-appropriate standards against which the developmental progress of individual children could be tracked. The current report is based on three studies completed among 1428 children aged between 5 and 36 months and living within rural and urban locations at the Coast of Kenya. We identified age-appropriate cut-offs and expected ranges of performance to facilitate the identification and monitoring of children with impaired psychomotor development.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3-10
Number of pages	8
Journal	Learning and Individual Differences
Volume	46
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2015.11.011
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2016
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

End points
Eye-hand co-ordination
Infancy
Kenya
Kilifi Developmental Inventory
Locomotor
Rural
Start points

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