Down syndrome patients and their parents

Healthy children and their parents

The EMQ is designed as a fast and easy to complete motor questionnaire, and is organized into 3 sections: Gross motor skills, fine motor skills, and perception-action integration skills. The EMQ is not a standardized assessment, but can be used in research settings, serve as a motor screener, or as complement to standardized measures of early motor development.

The Montreal Children's Hospital Feeding Scale (MCHFS) is a quick and reliable measure of feeding problems for clinical settings, but there is little examination of its relationship to commonly used research measures of parental feeding practice, child eating behaviour and observations of parent-infant interaction at mealtimes.

y the Feeding Handicap Index (FHI), [20] was developed and standardized on typically developing children, children with CP, Autism spectrum disorder in the age range of 2-10 years and Intellectual disability. FHI has 38 items related to statements related to physical (21), emotional (12) and functional (5) aspects of feeding and swallowing abilities. It has a 3 point rating scale (0, 1 & 2) where "0" indicates the individual "Never has this problem", "1" indicates "Sometimes has this problem" and "3" indicates "Always has this problem"

Evaluate the Parent Perceptions of Physical Activity in Families of Toddlers With Neurodevelopmental Disorders

is an individually administered scale that assesses five key developmental domains in children between 1-42 months of age: cognition, language (receptive and expressive communication), motor (gross and fine), social-emotional and adaptive behavior. The first three are assessed through direct observation of the child in test situations, while the last two are assessed through questionnaires to be completed by the main caregiver.

The perception of the level of health and the quality of life were evaluated with the questionnaire European Quality of

Life-5 Dimensions (EQ-5D). It is composed of 2 parts in which health status is assessed:

• Descriptive system: It consists on 5 dimensions that include mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort, and anxiety/depression. Patients classify their health status in 3 severity levels: having no problems, having some or moderate problems, being unable to do/having extreme problems.
• Visual Analog Scale, by which respondents can report their perceived health status with a grade ranging from 0 (the worst possible health status) to 100 (the best possible health status)