Cognitive Assessments Flashcards
Children’s Kitchen Task Assessment format
Performance-based rating scale that takes 15-20 minutes to administer
Children’s Kitchen Task Assessment purpose
Measure organization, planning, and judgment and safety skills
Children’s Kitchen Task Assessment population
Children 8 -12 years
Children’s Kitchen Task Assessment administration
Preassessment questionnaire is used to determine child’s previous cooking and related experiences
12-step instructions for making play dough are provided with incremental cuing guideline
Therapist waits 10 seconds before cueing the child to determine whether the child can self-correct
Scoring is based on number and level of cues for each steps
A score is 0 if no cues were required to 5 if the therapist needed to do for the participant
Children’s Kitchen Task Assessment interpretation
Total weighted score is calculated (0-400)
Higher scores indicate greater dependence
Children’s Kitchen Task Assessment reliability and validity
Interrater reliability
Construct validity
Dynamic Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment for Children format
Battery of performance tasks that takes 1.5 hours to administer and 20 minutes to score (more than 1 session may be used)
22 subtests address orientation, spatial perception, praxis, visual motor construction, and thinking operations
Immediate and delayed memory are measured in 5 subtests of visuomotor construction
Dynamic Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment for Children purpose
Provide baseline measurement of cogntive abilities for children with special needs
Used to identify strengths and deficits, measure learning potential, and examine thinking strategies
Dynamic Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment for Children population
Children aged 6-12 years with suspected cognitive impairments resulting from possible developmental, cognitive, or academic and learning difficulties
Dynamic Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment for Children administration
Items are scored correct or incorrect with some performance-based ratings
Reaction time is recorded during visuomotor construction and thinking operation subtests
Prompting is permitted on items that are difficult
Dynamic Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment for Children interpretation
Cut-off percentile and dynamic percentage scores by age groups indicate whether performance is average or below average
Dynamic Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment for Children reliability and validity
Interrater reliability and internal consistency
Construct validity and predictive validity
