Test of Infant Motor Performance Training
COURSE TITLE: The Test of Infant Motor Performance: From Research to Practice
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This intermediate level workshop is designed for physical and occupational therapists and Speech pathologist, nurses and physicians working with infants under 5 months of age. Participants will gain skills in administering and scoring the Test of Infant Motor Performance (TIMP), a test of functional motor behavior in infants from 34 weeks postconceptional age through 4 months adjusted age.
The TIMP can be used in special care nursery settings and in early intervention programs, to facilite communication among caregivers in different settings, assess the performance of high-risk infants and the effects of intervention. TIMP items are related to demands for movement placed on infants during daily life interactions. Thus, the test is an assessment of the posture and movement skills needed by infants for daily life activities.
The TIMP can be used to
- Identify infants at high risk for poor motor outcome
- Assess change in motor performance over time,
- Plan and assess outcomes of intervention
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Participants in this intermediate level course will:
- Gain knowledge of the theoretical background and research on reliability and validity of the TIMP derived from studies of more than150 infants.
- Learn appropriate uses of the TIMP in practice and research.
- Develop basic skill in correct administration and scoring of TIMP performance from observation of videotaped assessments.
Instructor and Qualifications:
Gay L. Girolami holds the rank of Clinical Professor and serves as the Director of Professional education for the Doctor of Physical Therapy Program in the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Girolami received her BS in physical therapy from Marquette University and an MS in pediatric physical therapy with a minor in curriculum design from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She completed a doctoral degree in motor control and motor learning in the Kinesiology and Nutrition Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Girolami is a co-developer of the Test of Infant Motor Performance (TIMP).
Dr. Girolami’s primary teaching, service and research interests are in the area of pediatric neurologic physical therapy and postural control in infants and children. She is active in the Pediatric Section of American Physical Therapy Association, past president of the Neuro-Developmental Treatment Association and a member of the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine. Before coming to UIC she was a faculty member in the DPT program at Concordia University Wisconsin. Prior to her academic career, Dr. Girolami served for 26 years as the founding executive director of Pathways Center in Glenview, Illinois. Pathways, a multidisciplinary, non-profit outpatient clinic, was established to provide assessment and treatment for children with neurological and developmental conditions (www.pathways.org).
Dr. Girolami’s research interests include the study of posture, balance and motor control in infants and children with typical and atypical motor development and assessment and treatment interventions for infants and children with neuromotor disorders.
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Training |
Early Bird (Before 20th Nov 2024) Fees Per Participants |
Regular (After 21st Nov 2024) Fees Per Participants |
Both (₹ 60,000/-)
Before November 20th, 2024 |
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TIMP Workshop |
₹ 30,000 |
₹ 35,000 |
₹ 30,000 |
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Selected TIMP References:
- A complete annotated bibliography of TIMP research can be found at https://www.thetimp.com/research
- Campbell SK. Test-retest reliability of the Test of Infant Motor Performance. Pediatr Phys Ther. 1999;11:60-66: Documents test-retest reliability for 116 pairs of tests of r = .89 over 3 days; no significant difference between testers. http://journals.lww.com/pedpt/Abstract/1999/01120/Test_Retest_Reliability_of_the_Test_of_Infant.2.aspx
- Campbell SK, Hedeker D. Validity of the Test of Infant Motor Performance for discriminating among infants with varying risk for poor motor outcome. J Pediatr. 2001;139:546-551: Documents ability of the TIMP to discriminate among infants with varying risk for poor motor performance in early infancy. http://dx.doi.org/10.1067/mpd.2001.117581
- Campbell SK, Kolobe THA, Osten ET, Lenke M, Girolami GL. Construct validity of the Test of Infant Motor Performance. Phys Ther. 1995;75:585-596: Documents relationship between age and TIMP test scores for infants from 32 weeks postconceptional age through 3.5 months AA with r = .83. https://academic.oup.com/ptj/article-abstract/75/7/585/2632886/Construct-Validity-of-the-Test-of-Infant-Motor?redirectedFrom=fulltext
- Campbell SK, Levy P, Zawacki L, Liao P-j. Population-based age standards for interpreting results on the Test of Infant Motor Performance. Pediatr Phys Ther. 2006;18:119-125. Provides age standards for performance on the TIMP based on testing of 990 U.S. infants. High risk infants and Latino/a infants performed less well than infants of other races/ethnicities and infants with lower risk for poor outcome based on perinatal medical complications. http://journals.lww.com/pedpt/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2006&issue=01820&article=00002&type=abstract
- Campbell SK, Swanlund A, Smith E, Liao P-j, Zawacki L. Validity of the TIMPSI for estimating concurrent performance on the Test of Infant Motor Performance. Pediatr Phys Ther 2008;20:3-10. Performance on the TIMP and the TIMPSI were compared at the same age in 990 U.S. infants. A cutscore of -.5 SD on the TIMPSI correctly classified 83.7% of the infants on the TIMP as delayed/not delayed, but the cutscore of -.25 SD produced the best combination of false negatives (5.8%) and false positives (12.5%) and is recommended for use in clinical practice. http://journals.lww.com/pedpt/Fulltext/2008/01910/Validity_of_the_TIMPSI_for_Estimating_Concurrent.2.aspx http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PEP.0b013e31815f66a6
- Campbell SK, Wright BD, Linacre JM. Development of a functional movement scale for infants. J Applied Meas. 2002;3(2):191-204. Description of use of Rasch analysis to develop Version 4 of the TIMP used in a population-based study of 990 infants in 10 U.S. cities. http://jampress.org/abst2002.pdf
- Peyton C, Schreiber MD, Msall ME. The Test of Infant Motor Performance at 3 months predicts language, cognitive, and motor outcomes in infants born preterm at 2 years of age. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2018; Mar 13. doi: 10.1111/dmcn.13736. [Epub ahead of print]
- Hilderman CGE, Harris SR. Early intervention post-hospital discharge for infants born preterm. Phys Ther. 2014; 94:1211-1219.
- Krosschell KJ, Maczulski JA, Scott C, King W, Hartman JT, Case LE, Viazzo-Trussell D, Wood J, Roman CA, Hecker E, Meffert M, Leveille M, Kienitz K, Swoboda KJ, on behalf of Project Cure. Reliability and validity of the TIMPSI for infants with spinal muscular atrophy type I. Pediatric Phys Ther. 2013; 25:140-148.
- Nuysink J, Eijsermans MJ, van Haastert IC, Koopman-Esseboom C, Helders PJ, de Vries LS, van der Net J. Clinical course of asymmetric motor performance and deformational plagiocephaly in very preterm infants. J Pediatr 2013; 163:658-665.
- Lee H-M, Galloway JC. Early intensive postural and movement training advances head control in very young infants. Phys Ther. 2012; 92:935-947.
- Guimaraes CLN, Reinaux CM, Botelho ACG, Lima GMS, Cabral Filho JE. Motor development evaluated by Test of Infant Motor Performance: Comparison between preterm and full-term infants. Rev Bras Fisioter, Sao Carlos 2011; 15 (5):357-362.
