DEVELOPMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF YOUNG CHILDERN 4

Developmental assessment of Young children 4 (1+3)

Lesson 10:Scales used in neonatal assessment

Infant Psychological Development Scale (IPDS)

• It was developed by Uzgiris & Hunt in 1975.
• Suitable for children from birth to 24 months.
• It was developed based on Piaget’s scale of cognitive development.
• Used to identify developmental delay.
• The subscale include Visual pursuit, object permanence, means for obtaining desired environmental events, vocal imitations, gestural imitations, operational casualty, object relations in space and schemes for relating objects.