STUNTING AND DELAYED MOTOR DEVELOPMENT IN RURAL WEST JAVA

The association between physical growth and gross motor development, p articularly self-produced locomotion, was considered in 557 children 3 -18 months of age. Gross motor development was assessed with nine pres elected milestones representing the major landmarks in self-produced b ipedal locomotion. Motor development is presented by age and by milest one, and is compared to developmental ranges of the Denver Development al Screening Test. Consistent with other studies of undernutrition and motor development, length-for-age, but not weight-for-length, was a s ignificant predictor of gross motor development (i.e., delayed or not delayed). The effect of weight-for-age on motor development was not st atistically significant after accounting for length-for-age. (C) 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.