Intelligence Assessment of Argentine babies: Argentine Scale of Sensory Motor Intelligence - EAIS

ALICIA OIBERMAN, LILIANA ORELLANA, MANSILLA MARIELA

La Psychiatrie de l`Enfant

Presses Universitaires de France P:U:F

Lugar: Paris; Año: 2007

1244-5835

The purpose of this work is to present a test which allows the assessment of the behavior of our infants from a consecutive development approach. There are two main periods in the development of intelligence: before and after the constitution of the symbolic (or semiotic) function, which appears  within the age of 16 and 20 months old. The first period is called sensory motor intelligence. The sensory motor intelligence is the ability to solve problems through activities in which perception, attitudes, tone and movements without symbolic evocations – that is, before the verbal language appears – are mainly part of. The Argentine Scale of Sensory Motor Intelligence (EAIS) was created for babies aged from 6 to 24 months old. This scale was built considering 323 Argentine babies in order to know the level of mental development during the non-verbal period, obtain standard figures of reference of the Argentine population and contribute with a useful as well as effective tool to diagnose the intellectual development of Argentine babies aged from 6 to 24 months old and detect cognitive disorders. Given the baby’s vulnerability, its dependence on adults, the complexity of maturity and development processes, and the environment, the use of tests adapted or built with Argentine babies lets us count on tools of our own to assess the population and enrich the first infancy bio-psycho-social perspective.