Early Intervention

Combining General Movements Assessment and Hammersmith Infant Neurological Examination at 3 to 5 months provides high predictive power for long-term motor outcomes. Early prevention programmes are more beneficial when they are early, continuous across hospital and community settings, multidisciplinary, and family-centred. Infants at high developmental risk should receive systematic screening for motor disorders before 5 months post-term. General Movements Assessment and Hammersmith Infant Neurological Examination are identified as standardised and validated screening tools. Routine care in industrialised countries can identify infants with neonatal hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy or neonatal stroke.