Correlations between Gesell scores in infancy and performance on verbal and non-verbal tests in early childhood

Percept Mot Skills. 1977 Dec;45(3 Pt 2):1131-4. doi: 10.2466/pms.1977.45.3f.1131.

Abstract

Since infant developmental tests are heavily loaded with perceptual-motor items and are relatively free of auditory-verbal items, it was hypothesized that performance on infant tests would correlate higher with those later tests which measure non-verbal skills and lower with those tests that measure mostly verbal skills. The Gesell performance of 26 normal, male white infants at 7, 9 and 15 mo. correlated significantly and consistently with performance on the Merrill-Palmer Scale at 27 mo. and the visual-motor channel of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities at 5 yr. and showed consistently non-significant correlations with the Stanford Binet at 3 yr., the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test at 5 yr., and the auditory-vocal channel of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities at 5 yr.

MeSH terms

  • Age Factors
  • Child Development*
  • Child, Preschool
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Male
  • Motor Skills
  • Psychological Tests*
  • Verbal Behavior
  • Visual Perception