Hajar Jahadian Sarvestani; Parvaneh Shafienia; Mahdi Zarghami
Abstract
The aim of the current research was to compare motor development in 3–6-year-old children from Ahvaz with Denver developmental screening test II. Themethodology of this research was descriptive – survey. The statistical populationconsisted of children from Ahvaz and 1044 children aged between ...
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The aim of the current research was to compare motor development in 3–6-year-old children from Ahvaz with Denver developmental screening test II. Themethodology of this research was descriptive – survey. The statistical populationconsisted of children from Ahvaz and 1044 children aged between 3 and 6 wereselected from Ahvaz kindergartens by cluster random sampling method. Denverdevelopmental screening test II was used to collect data. Descriptive statistics wereused to compute frequencies and percentile rank to set percentile points. Thefinding showed that children from Ahvaz had a delay in all percentile points (25%,50%, 70% and 90%) in gross movements with regard to Denver test. Also, they hada delay in all percentile points (25%, 50%, 75% and 90%) in fine movements withregard to Denver test.
