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Some Key Publications

Burns YR. (1992). NSMDA: Physiotherapy assessment for infants and young children Brisbane, CopyRight Brisbane.

Burns, YR, Ensbey R, Norrie M (1989 a & b). The neurosensory motor developmental assessment. Aust J. Physiotherapy; 35:141-157.

Burns YR, O'Callaghan, M Tudehope D (1989) Early identification of cerebral palsy in high risk infants. Aust Paediatr J 25: 215-219.

Burns YR , Ensbey R, O’Callaghan M (1999) Motor abilities at eight to ten years of children born weighing less than 1,000g. Physiotherapy 85:7 360-369

Burns YR, Gray PH and O'Callaghan MJ (1997) Bronchopulmonary dysplasia: A comparative study of motor development to two years of age. Australian Journal of Physiotherapy 43:1 19-25. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11676669?ordinalpos=5&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

Burns Y, O’Callaghan M, McDonell B, Rogers Y (2004) Movement and motor development in ELBW infants at 1 year is related to cognitive and motor abilities at 4 years. Early Human Development 80 19-29 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15363836?ordinalpos=3&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

Burns Y. R., Danks, M., O'Callaghan, M. J., Gray, P. H., Cooper, D., Poulsen, L., et al. (2008). Motor coordination difficulties and physical fitness of extremely-low-birthweight children. Dev Med Child Neurol. 51:2 136-142

Connors JM, O'Callaghan MJ, Burns YR, Gray PH, Tudehope DI, Mohay H, Rogers YM. (1999) The influence of growth on development outcome in extremely low birthweight infants at 2 years of age.J Paediatr Child Health;35(1):37-41. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10234633?ordinalpos=4&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

Hormiga, C. M., Camargo, D. M., & Orozco, L. C. (2008). [Reliability and convergent construct validity of the abridged development scale and a Spanish translation of the Neurosensory Motor Development Assessment]. Biomedica, 28(3), 327-346.

Jeyaseelan , O’Callaghan M, Neulinger K, Shum D, Burns Y (2006) The association between early minor motor difficulties in extreme low birth weight infants and school age attentional difficulties. Early Human Development ;82:249-55. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16337099?ordinalpos=2&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

MacDonald JA, Burns YR and Mohay HA (1991) Characteristics of Neuro-Sensori-Motor Performance of very low birth weight and high-risk infants at six year of age. New Zealand Journal of Physiotherapy 17-20.

MacDonald J, Burns Y (2005 ) Performance on the NSMDA during first and second year of life to predict functional ability at the age of 4 in children with Cerebral Palsy. Hong Kong Physiotherapy Journal 23:40-45

Spittle, A. J., Doyle, L. W., & Boyd, R. N. (2008a). A systematic review of the clinimetric properties of neuromotor assessments for preterm infants during the first year of life. Dev Med Child Neurol, 50(4), 254-266. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18190538?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

Spittle, A. J., Doyle, L. W., & Boyd, R. N. (2008a). A systematic review of the clinimetric properties of neuromotor assessments for preterm infants during the first year of life. Dev Med Child Neurol, 50(4), 254-266. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18190538?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

Spittle AJ, Brown NC, Doyle LW, Boyd RN, Hunt RW, Bear M, Inder TE. (2008) Quality of General Movements is Related to White Matter Pathology in Very Preterm Infants. Pediatrics.;121(5):e1184-1189 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18390959?ordinalpos=2&itool=EntrezSystem2.Entrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

Spittle, A. J., Boyd, R. N., Inder, T. E., & Doyle, L. W. (2009h). Predicting motor development in very preterm infants at 12 months' corrected age: the role of qualitative magnetic resonance imaging and general movements assessments. Pediatrics, 123(2), 512-517. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19171616?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum