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Gesell Developmental Schedules

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noun

(usually used with a plural verb)

  1. a rating system designed to evaluate the cognitive, motor, language, and social development of pre-school-age children by observing their performance on developmental tasks, as reaching, walking, and using sentences.

Etymology

Origin of Gesell Developmental Schedules

After A. L. Gesell, who devised them

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