{"doi":"10.1111/dmcn.16415","title":"Selective Control Assessment of the Lower Extremity for Infants and Toddlers (Mini‐ <scp>SCALE</scp> ): Development and validation of a clinical assessment","abstract":"Abstract Aim To investigate the validity of Selective Control Assessment of the Lower Extremity for Infants and Toddlers (Mini‐SCALE), an adaptation of Selective Control Assessment of the Lower Extremity (SCALE), in young children aged from 3 months to less than 4 years. Method Mini‐SCALE was modified from SCALE and reviewed by 16 experienced clinicians to establish content validity. For convergent validity, Mini‐SCALE was compared to the Developmental Assessment of Young Children, Second Edition, Gross Motor subdomain (DAYC‐2 GM) for 50 participants (aged 4–46 months, 29 males) with cerebral palsy (CP) ( n = 20), at risk for CP ( n = 9), and typically developing participants ( n = 21) using a prospective cross‐sectional design. For known‐group validity, the scores of children with or at risk for CP were compared to typically developing children using the Welch's two‐sample t ‐test. Results Content validity was strong with 96.6% (range = 75%–100%) expert agreement on 54 statements about content, administration, and grading. Convergent validity was strong between Mini‐SCALE and the DAYC‐2 GM (Spearman's rank correlation coefficient, r s = 0.80; p &lt; 0.001). Mini‐SCALE discriminated between children with or at risk for CP and typically developing children ( p &lt; 0.001). Interpretation Mini‐SCALE is a valid measure of selective motor control for young children with or at risk for CP.","journal":"Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology","year":2025,"id":571544,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9532,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2025-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":325351,"name":"Barbara Sargent","orcid":"0000-0002-2261-6610","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1241545,"name":"Lillian Chen","orcid":"0000-0002-5353-8117","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1133301,"name":"Eileen Fowler","orcid":"0000-0002-3806-4064","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":944076,"name":"Loretta A. Staudt","orcid":"0000-0002-8089-9911","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":33,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:57:15.755535Z","pmid":"40751442","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}