CONICET | Buscador de Institutos y Recursos Humanos

The purpose of this work is to present the test named ?Argentine Scale of Sensory Motor Intelligence? (EAIS) which allows the assessment of the cognitive development in infants from 6 to 30 month old. And to describe the results obtained from the application of this test in infant with different characteristics and from different populations all around our country during the last ten years, from the moment this test was created until the present. In the present video presentation we described research made from the application of the EAIS test to assess early cognitive development of infants at biological and social risk as: malnutrition, anemic children, prematurity, sexual abuse, infant from indigenous communities and orphans babies.The objectives are:1. To present results obtained from the application of this test in different argentine vulnerable populations.2. To assess the sensory motor intelligence of argentine infants at biological and social risk in order to obtain reference values of those vulnerable populations.3. To compare early cognitive development between infants at social and biological risk with healthy infants.4. To go more deeply into the knowledge of intellectual processes of very young children (from 6 to 30 months old) especially with regard to risk factors influencing the cognitive development.This research is a contribution to the health area with a useful as well as efficient tool to diagnose the intellectual development of babies with biological and social vulnerability and to investigate the impact of those conditions into early child development.The EAIS has become a useful technique for the early prediction of future abilities or disorders in the cognitive area and to follow up cognitive development in babies at risk of cognitive delay.