CAST: Developing Care in the Developing World: Bayley Scale of Infant Development Training - For work in India
Bayley Scale of Infant Development Training - For work in India
Dr Suzanne Zeedyk and Dr Cliff Davies will be providing most of your training for your work in Hyderabad. They will train you in the Baylay Scales of Infant Development (BSID). The BSID measure the mental and motor development and test the behaviour of infants from one to 42 months of age. The BSID are used to describe the current developmental functioning of infants and to assist in diagnosis and treatment planning for infants with developmental delays or disabilities. The test is intended to measure a child's level of development in three domains: cognitive, motor, and behavioural.
Cognitive Development: Cognition can be defined as a process by which knowledge is gained from perceptions or ideas. Cognitive development refers to how an infant perceives, thinks, and gains an understanding of the world. Within the history of developmental psychology, the work of Jean Piaget (1896–1980), the Swiss psychologist, has had the greatest impact on the study of cognitive development. Piaget's theory is focused on the processes of cognitive development and states that the child is born with an innate curiosity to interact with and understand his/her environment. It is through interaction with others that the child actively constructs his/her development.
Motor Development: During the first two years of life, infants grow and develop in many ways. Two types of motor development occur at this stage. Cephalocaudal development occurs in the following sequence: head before arms and trunk and arms and trunk before legs. Proximodistal development occurs as follows: head, trunk, arms before hands and fingers. Motor development has a powerful impact on the social relationships, thinking, and language of infants. Large motor development allows infants to have more control over actions that help them move around their environment, while small motor development gives them more control over movements that allow them to reach, grasp, and handle objects. The sequence of these developments is similar in most children; however, the rate of growth and development varies by individual.
Behavioural Development: Temperament is the set of genetically determined traits that organize the child's approach to the world. They are instrumental in the development of the child's distinct personality and behaviour. This behavioural style appears very early in life—within the first two months after birth—and undergoes development, cantered on features such as intensity, activity, persistence, or emotionality.
Besides measuring normal cognitive, motor, and behavioural developmental levels, the BSID are also used in cases in which there are significant delays in acquiring certain skills or performing key activities in order to qualify a child for special interventions. Specifically, they are also used to do the following: identify children who are developmentally delayed; chart a child's progress after the initiation of an intervention programme; teach parents about their infant's development; conduct research in developmental psychology. The BSID are known to have high reliability and validity. The mental and motor scales have high correlation coefficients (.83 and .77 respectively) for test-retest reliability. For more information see: http://www.answers.com/top
Volunteers may also undertake training in Intensive Interaction, a communicative technique, and Emotional and Behavioural Management. You may see details of free training from the Department of Health on the OFP Facebook group and CAST website. For those volunteers who are not able to attend a training day, you can still see the lecture notes and much more information on the CAST website. We also try to hold training events at all large meetings in order to cut down on the amount of times people need to travel to Manchester. Training seminars, workshops, and clinics are frequently held on site at the projects.
Mr Mujeeb Khan, the Bhumi President, has also arranged for all volunteers to partake in a two-day induction upon arrival in India.
Cognitive Development: Cognition can be defined as a process by which knowledge is gained from perceptions or ideas. Cognitive development refers to how an infant perceives, thinks, and gains an understanding of the world. Within the history of developmental psychology, the work of Jean Piaget (1896–1980), the Swiss psychologist, has had the greatest impact on the study of cognitive development. Piaget's theory is focused on the processes of cognitive development and states that the child is born with an innate curiosity to interact with and understand his/her environment. It is through interaction with others that the child actively constructs his/her development.
Motor Development: During the first two years of life, infants grow and develop in many ways. Two types of motor development occur at this stage. Cephalocaudal development occurs in the following sequence: head before arms and trunk and arms and trunk before legs. Proximodistal development occurs as follows: head, trunk, arms before hands and fingers. Motor development has a powerful impact on the social relationships, thinking, and language of infants. Large motor development allows infants to have more control over actions that help them move around their environment, while small motor development gives them more control over movements that allow them to reach, grasp, and handle objects. The sequence of these developments is similar in most children; however, the rate of growth and development varies by individual.
Behavioural Development: Temperament is the set of genetically determined traits that organize the child's approach to the world. They are instrumental in the development of the child's distinct personality and behaviour. This behavioural style appears very early in life—within the first two months after birth—and undergoes development, cantered on features such as intensity, activity, persistence, or emotionality.
Besides measuring normal cognitive, motor, and behavioural developmental levels, the BSID are also used in cases in which there are significant delays in acquiring certain skills or performing key activities in order to qualify a child for special interventions. Specifically, they are also used to do the following: identify children who are developmentally delayed; chart a child's progress after the initiation of an intervention programme; teach parents about their infant's development; conduct research in developmental psychology. The BSID are known to have high reliability and validity. The mental and motor scales have high correlation coefficients (.83 and .77 respectively) for test-retest reliability. For more information see: http://www.answers.com/top
Volunteers may also undertake training in Intensive Interaction, a communicative technique, and Emotional and Behavioural Management. You may see details of free training from the Department of Health on the OFP Facebook group and CAST website. For those volunteers who are not able to attend a training day, you can still see the lecture notes and much more information on the CAST website. We also try to hold training events at all large meetings in order to cut down on the amount of times people need to travel to Manchester. Training seminars, workshops, and clinics are frequently held on site at the projects.
Mr Mujeeb Khan, the Bhumi President, has also arranged for all volunteers to partake in a two-day induction upon arrival in India.