Monitoring Child Psychomotor Development

Monitoring psychomotor development of children is important to know early so that irregularities prevention efforts, and efforts to stimulate healing and recovery efforts in child health services. The effort was conducted in accordance with the age of the child's development so as to achieve optimal conditions. Monitoring psychomotor development of children can be centered health-care centers, neighborhood health center, school or home environment.
Things that can affect psychomotor development, among others:
a. The existence of an appropriate stimulus with the stimulus child
b. Parents or caregivers in providing the stimulus
c. Through exercises that right, makes the child will be more skilled (Gamayanti, cit Prasetyawati, 2007).
Detection of child development for psychomotor tests using the Denver Developmental Screening Test II (DDST II), which is one test skrening methods are often used to assess the child's development from age 1 month to 6 years. The development being assessed include the development of personal social, fine motor, gross motor, and language in children. DDST II is one of the psychomotor tests are often used diklinik or hospitals for the development of the child.
Interpretation of the assessment of the Denver II:
a. Advance past the principal in full right from the age (passed in less than 25% of children at a greater age of the child).
b. OK: passed, failed or refused to be cut by a line between the ages of 25 and 75th percentile.
c. Causion: principal fails or refuses to be cut based on age lines above or between the 75th percentile and the 90th.
d. Delay: failed on a subject as a whole towards the left of the old, old-line leftist rejection can also be regarded as a late, for reasons to reject may be ktidakmampuan to perform certain tasks.
Interpretation of test
a. Normal: no delay and a maximum of one caution.
b. Suspect: one or more delay and / or 2 or more stout vigilance.
c. Untestable: rejection on one or more principal with left complete line of age or more than one principal cut points based on age lines in the area of ​​75% to 95%.
Recommendations for referral testing or untestable suspect
a. Repeated screening at 1 to 2 weeks to rule out temporary factors.
b. When this re-screening is suspect or untestable using clinical assessments based on the following, vigilance and delay figures, the rate of growth in the past, examination and clinical history, the availability of referral sources.