NIH BABY TOOLBOX

有各种各样的早期发育评估或筛查工具。 标准化、可靠的评估工具（例如，马伦早期学习量表 早期发展量表、巴特尔发展量表等）允许直接 评估婴儿/儿童的行为，但他们是时间密集型的，昂贵的购买，需要 训练有素的管理人员，评分和翻译，并经常依赖于过时的 规范高效NIH婴儿和幼儿研究计划（又名“NIH婴儿研究计划”）的目的 [NBT]）是开发和国家规范一个易于管理，评分和解释婴儿， 幼儿认知、社会功能、语言（接受和 表达能力）、计算能力、自我调节能力、执行功能和运动功能， 临床应用于1至42个月大的儿童，包括直接儿童评估 （首选测量），根据需要补充父母/法律的监护人报告。 为了完成NIH的研究，西北大学将扩大与Sage Bionetworks的关系，Sage Bionetworks是一家总部位于西雅图的非营利性研发组织，专门从事苹果和Android数据收集。西北大学的研究人员还将协调丹佛大学、佛罗里达州立大学、明尼苏达大学、约翰霍普金斯大学和纽约大学的研究人员的测量开发工作。

There is a wide range of early developmental assessment or screening instruments. Standardized, reliable assessment instruments (e.g., Mullen Scales of Early Learning, Brigance Inventory of Early Development, Battelle Developmental Inventory, etc.) allow for direct evaluation of infant/child behaviors but they are time intensive, expensive to purchase, require highly trained personnel for administration, scoring, and interpreting, and often rely on outdated norms. The purpose of the NIH Infant and Toddler Toolbox (aka the “NIH Baby Toolbox” [NBT]) is to develop and nationally norm an easy to administer, score, and interpret infant and toddler assessment inventory of cognition, social functioning, language (receptive and expressive), numeracy, self-regulation, executive function, and motor function for research and clinical use in children between 1- to 42-months of age that will include direct child assessment (preferred measurement), supplemented as needed by parental/ legal guardian report. To complete the NIH Toolbox, Northwestern will extend its relationship with Sage Bionetworks, a Seattle-based nonprofit research and development organization specializing in Apple and Android data collection. Northwestern researchers will also coordinate measurement development efforts by researchers at the University of Denver, Florida State University, University of Minnesota, Johns Hopkins University, and New York University.