This 3.5 day course provides an introduction to Prechtl 's Method of the Qualitative Assessment of General Movements in young infants. Compelling evidence has shown that using this assessment method at a very early age is the best predictor for cerebral palsy.

Basic Course

Through lectures, demonstrations and exercises, attendees will learn:

• The ontogeny of spontaneous motor activity;

• Normal and abnormal general movements (GMs) from birth to 20 weeks post-term;

• Practical instructions for recording and assessing GMs;

• GMs and follow-up: individual developmental trajectories and their predictive power for later neurological impairments

No faculty are available for this activity at this time.