Assessments Flashcards
DTVP-3: purpose, type, procedures, age range, length of administration
Purpose: assess visual perception, incl. eye-hand coordination, copying, figure-ground, spatial relations, visual closure, form constancy
Type: standardized
Procedures: performance-based; child does 5 subtests; results converted to raw scores, age equivalents, standard scores and percentiles
Materials: manual, picture book, response booklet, pencils
Age range: 4-12
Length of administration: 30-60 mins
VMI: purpose, type, procedures, age range, length of administration
purpose: to measure visual-motor integration in children and adults
type: standardized, norm-referenced
procedures: performance-based in three domains -
(1) Visual-Motor Integration - examinee copies drawings of 24 geometric shapes, arranged in a developmental sequence (from less → more complex)
(2) Visual Perception - examinee IDs each shape’s identical match from a set of similar shapes.
(3) Motor Coordination - examinee traces shapes that get progressively more difficult (assessing fine motor skills)
age range: long form 2 - 100; short form 2-7
length of administration: 10-15 mins
Clinical Observations of Motor and Postural Skills (COMPS): purpose, type, procedures, age, time
purpose: standardization of traditional clinical observations used as screening tool to ID motor problems with a postural component
type: standardized
procedures: examiner describes and demonstrates six items for client to perform:
- slow movements
- rapid forearm rotation
- finger-nose touching
- prone extension posture
- ATNR
- supine flexion posture
age: 5-15
time: 15-20 minutes
QNST3 (Quick Neurological Screening Test)
Purpose: to detect neurological soft signs (NSS) of possible clinical importance, based on motor coordination / sensory integration abilities
Type: standardized
Procedures: client perform 15 tasks related to: motor maturity / development, sensory processing, gross/fine muscle control, sense of rate and rhythm, spatial organization, visual/auditory perception, balance/vestibular functions, disorders of attention.
Subtest scores are tabulated for a single score.
Age range: 4 - 80+
Length of administration: 20 minutes
Pediatric Interest Profile
Purpose: to develop client rapport and learn what interests and motivates client
Type: non-standardized
General test procedures: examinee asks child about interests: do you do this activity? do you like it? who do you do it with?
Age range: childhood (?)
Length of administration: variable; continue until enough information is gained to be of use, of until child loses interest and stops responding
Sensory Profile 2
Purpose: to measure sensory processing patterns that support or interfere with function
Type: standardized
General test procedures: caregiver responds to questionnaire, reporting how child responds to various situations/events. Uses Likert scale (from “almost never” to “almost always”)
Age range: 0-14
Length of administration: 5-10 minutes
BOT-2 (Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency, 2nd ed.)
Purpose of test: Comprehensive measure of gross and fine motor skill
General test procedures: Includes 8 subtests (FM precision, FM integration, manual dexterity, upper limb coordination, bilateral coordination, balance, running speed and agility, strength)
Age range: 4-21
Length of administration:
- Full: 40-60 min
- Short: 10-15 min
SIPT - Sensory Integration and Praxis Test
Purpose of test: Considered the most comprehensive and statistically sound method for measuring sensory integration and praxis.
General test procedures: 17 subtests in four main categories (motor-free visual perception, somatosensory, praxis, sensorimotor). Need extensive training to administer
Age range: 4 years – 8 years 11 mo
SPM - Sensory Processing Measure
Purpose of test: Using 3 integrated rating scales, the SPM measures sensory processing, praxis, and social participation
General test procedures: Test scores social participation, vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell, body awareness, balance and motion, and planning and ideas.
Age range: 5-12
Length of administration: 15-20 min
Sensory Profile
Purpose of test: Measures behavioral responses to everyday sensory experiences and provides info regarding the sensory processing of an individual
General test procedures: 60 question, self-report questionnaire, quadrant scores for 4 domains: low registration, sensation seeking, sensory sensitivity, and sensation avoiding.
Age range: (there are forms for ages 0 - 14)
Length of administration: 20-30 min
ETCH - Evaluation Tool of Children’s Handwriting
Purpose of test:
- evaluates manuscript and cursive handwriting skills
- assesses handwriting speed and legibility in writing tasks similar to those required of classroom students.
General test procedures: student writes out alphabet (uppercase and lowercase) and the numbers 1-0 (also seen: near-point copying, far-point copying, dictation, sentence composition). Therapist scores according to manual.
Age range: Grades 1-6
Length of administration: 15-25 minutes
TOP- Test of Playfulness
Purpose of test: Assesses a child’s playfulness based on (1) intrinsic motivation, (2) internal control, (3) freedom from constraints of reality, (4) framing
General test procedures: 20 observational items, scored 0-3 (extent, intensity, skill)
Age range: 3mo.-15 y.
Length of administration: 15-20 min. observation of free play
How to hypothesize about child after an assessment:
(child) was referred due to (problem that led to referral). Test scores show normal (whatever is normal) but delays in (whatever is delayed, include percentile) and (whatever else is delayed, include percentile). This suggests that …. (state what is suggested).
Assessing modulation, discrimination, praxis:
DISCRIMINATION: SPM (sensory processing measure), SIPT, observation
MODULATION: SPM (sensory processing measure), SIPT, SP (sensory profile)
PRAXIS: SIPT, BOT, observation
How to assess praxis:
Parent/teacher report (SPM)
Developmental History
Clinical Observation (structured/unstructured)
Sensory Integration and Praxis Test (SIPT)
Motor Scales (Peabody, BOT-2, VMI)
Test of Ideational Praxis (TIP)
