important role for the parents, providing both feedback and motivation. Recognizing the results of the performed tests with scien-
tific analyses was also an important motivating factor for most of the parents to attend the information meeting. The advantages of a low threshold intervention are a high number of participation, easy implementation and low costs (about 1000 Euro per kindergarten). Most other interventional studies at pre-school age were classified as high-intensity interventions, which are likely to produce high costs.
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Disadvantage of the approach in the present study is limited success concerning motor abilities.