Monitoring Infant Motor Skills and Cognitive Development Using Wearable Technology Observing Typical and At-Risk Infants from 5 to 26 Months

What this Trial Is About

Researchers are studying infant motor and cognitive development using a wearable device called MAIJU, which measures infants posture and movement patterns outside the hospital. The study includes normally developing infants and those at risk for neurological issues, as well as infants monitored for hip problems. The goal is to understand typical and at-risk infants motor growth and link early movement to later brain development. Infants are grouped as typically developing, those with neurological concerns, or those with hip dysplasia. MAIJU recordings are taken every 6 to 8 weeks from about 5 months to 18 months of age. Some infants may receive physiotherapy or use braces or casts as part of their usual clinical care. Neuropsychological development is assessed at two years old using Bayley scales. Participants will be observed and assessed through their routine clinical care, with added MAIJU monitoring and developmental testing. Researchers will track motor development trajectories and compare them to clinical measures of neurological and cognitive development at 12 and 24 months. The study runs from about 5 months to 2 years of age, with multiple check-ins and developmental evaluations.

Development of Motility and Cognition in Infants