Prechtl’s General Movement Assessment: Basic and Advanced Courses 2025

Prechtl’s General Movement Assessment: Basic and Advanced Courses 2025 is organized by Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and will be held from Mar 20 - 23, 2025 at CHOP Roberts Center for Pediatric Research, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.

Overview:
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is proud to offer both the basic and advanced general movement assessment courses. Research conducted in the last 20 years has shown that the qualitative assessment of spontaneous movement in the fetus, newborn, and young infant is an early and reliable indicator for diagnosis and prognosis of neurological disorders. Compelling evidence is now available that qualitative assessment of General Movements (GMs) — a specific type of spontaneous movement — under the age of five months is the best predictor of cerebral palsy. This course fulfills the standards specified by the Generalized Movement Trust (www.general-movements-trust.info). The course will consist of lessons, demonstration and discussion of video recordings. Lectures will alternate with exercises in small groups with videos prepared by the tutors.

Participants registering for the advanced course must have previously completed the basic training course. Advanced course participants will learn more detailed scoring systems and will have the opportunity to review their own recordings with the tutor.

At the end of the course, participants will be required to take a final test in order to receive a certificate of reliability in this method of assessment.