Developmental Assessments Flashcards
Assessment of Preterm Infants’ Behavior
Category: neonates
Type: checklist/scale
Purpose: assess pattern of developing behavioral organization in response to sensory and environmental stimuli
Neurological Assessment of Pre-term and Full-term Newborn Infant
Category: neonates
Type: 6-scale rating
Purpose: assess habituation, movement and tone, reflexes, neurobehavioral responses, level of arousal and alertness, auditory/visual orientation, irritability, cry
Denver Developmental Screening Test II
Category: overall - 1mo to 6yrs
Type: standardized task performance observation
Purpose: screening tool for developmental delays in personal-social areas, fine motor-adaptive, language, gross motor
Bayley Scales of Infant Development
Category: overall - 1 to 42months
Type: standardized rating scale; performance based and parent questionnaire
Purpose: cognition, language, motor, social-emotional, adaptive behavior
First Step Screening Test for evaluating preschoolers
Category: overall - 3-6yrs
Type: rating scales, parent-teacher scales
Purpose: cognition, communication, physical, social & emotional, and adaptive functioning
Hawaii Early Learning Profile
Category: overall - birth to 3yrs w/ developmental delay, disability or at-risk; 3-6yrs w/ or w/o delay
Type: non-standardized scale
Purpose: natural environment; cognition, language, GM, FM, social-emotional, self-help
Miller Assessment for Preschoolers
Category: overall - 3-5yrs
Type: standardized assesses sensory and motor abilities
Purpose: coordination, cognitive abilities, combined abilities including complex tasks
Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory
Category: overall - 6mo. to 7.5yrs
Type: standardized behavior checklist and rating scale
Purpose: self-care, mobility, social skills
Bruininks-Oserteskyy Test of Motor Proficiency (BOT-2)
Category: Motor - 4-21yrs
Type: standardized
Purpose: GM & FM including speed, duration, accuracy and hand/foot preferences
Erhardt Developmental Prehension Assessment
Category: Motor - children of all ages and cognitive levels w/ neurodevelopment disorders
Type: observation checklist
Purpose: involuntary arm-hand patterns, voluntary movements of approach and pre-writing skills
Peabody Developmental Motor Scale
Category: Motor - birth to 6yrs w/ motor, speech/language, hearing disorders
Type: standardized assessment
Purpose: GM & FM development, reflexes, sustained control, locomotion, object manipulation, grasping and VM integration
Toddler and Infant Motor Evaluation
Category: Motor - birth to 3yrs, 6mo.
Type: assesses quality of movement
Purpose: mobility, stability, motor organization, social/emotional, functional performance
Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual Motor Integration (VMI)
Category: visual motor and perception - 2-100yrs
Type:
Purpose: visual motor integration
Developmental Test of Visual Perception
Category: visual motor and perception - children 4-10yrs and 11-74yrs (2 types)
Type:
Purpose: visual perceptual skills and visual motor integration for levels of performance and for designing interventions
Erhardt Developmental Vision Assessment and Short Screening Form
Category: visual motor and perception - birth to 6mo.
Type: behavior rating scale
Purpose: visuomotor development; involuntary visual patterns, eyelid reflexes, pupillary reactions, fixation, localization, gaze shift
Preschool Visual Motor Integration Assessment
Category: visual motor and perception - 3.5 to 5.5yrs
Type: performance and observation
Purpose: perception in space, awareness of spatial relations, color and space discrimination, reproduce what is seen and interpreted
Motor-Free Visual Perception Test (MVPT-3)
Category: motor and visual perception - 4-95yrs
Type: standardized, quick
Purpose: spatial relationships, visual discrimination, figure-ground, visual closure, visual memory
*excludes motor components
Test of Visual-Motor Skills: Upper Level
Category: visual motor and perception - 2-13yrs and 12-40yrs (2 types)
Type: drawing geometric forms
Purpose: hand-eye coordination skills
Test of Visual-Perceptual Skills
Category: visual motor and perception - 4-19yrs
Type:
Purpose: visual discrimination, visual memory, visual-spatial relationships, visual form constancy, visual sequential memory, visual figure-ground and visual closure
Childhood Autism Rating Scale
Category: psychological and cognitive - children over 2yrs who have ASD
Type: observation and rating of behavior
Purpose: determines severity of Autism
Coping Inventory & Early Coping Inventory
Category: psychological and cognitive - 15yrs and 4-36mo. (ECI)
Type: questionnaire
Purpose: coping with self and environment; effectiveness of behaviors based on sensorimotor organization, reactive behavior and self-initiated behavior
Play History
Category: play - children and adolescents
Type: caregiver interview
Purpose: play behavior and opportunities
Revised Knox Preschool Play Scale
Category: play - 0-6yrs (useful for children who are not appropriate for standardized testing)
Type: observation
Purpose: differentiate developmental play abilities, strengths, weaknesses, and interest areas
Test of Playfulness
Category: play - infancy - 6yrs
Type: observation
Purpose: assess child’s playfulness based on intrinsic motivation, internal control, disengagement from constraints of family; extent, intensity, and skillfulness of play observed
