The Assessment of Growth and Development in Children
Open Access
- 1 February 1952
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 27 (131), 10-33
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.27.131.10
Abstract
A critical analysis is presented of the various techniques currently in use for the appraisement of growth and development. A simplified form for combined distance, velocity, and standard-score difference standards is presented as providing a test for "abnormality" which might well be more adequate than any now in use. Certain useful standards for maturity appraisement are discussed, including skeletal maturation as detd. by carpal X-ray, skeletal maturation by the "red graph method," and tooth eruption development.Keywords
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