Ped assessments Flashcards
Knox revised preschool play scale
Purpose: To describe the play age of children ages birth to 6 years of age
Ages: 0-6
Type: standardized, observational
Test of Playfulness (TOP)
Purpose: ability to measure a child’s playfulness against the playfulness for typical and atypical population.
Ages: 6 months- 18 years
Types: Standardized norm-referenced, observational
Test of Environmental Supportiveness (TOES)
Purpose: To assess if particular environments support or inhibit play.
Ages:
Types: clinical environmental assessments, ordinal data
BOT- 2
Purpose: To test motor proficiency in children 4-21 based on engaging goal-directed activities.
Ages: 4-21
Types: Norm-referenced standardized assessment
Advantages:
- norm referenced
- good test-retest reliability
- multi-disciplinary
- instructions are both verbal or visual
- atypical populations included in sample
- wide age range
Disadvantages
- Time consuming
- Expensive
- some subjectivity
- evaluates motor components not functional occupations
Bayley’s
Purpose: measures many body system skills as well as occupational performance
Ages: 1-42 months
Type: Standardized, norm-referenced
Advantages:
- global assessment
- norm-referenced
- flexible administration format
- considered gold standard for NICU and post-NICU follow-up
- reimbursable
- multidisciplinary
Disadvantages
- expensive
- time consuming
- small age range
Peabody Developmental Motor Scale (PDMS-2)
Purpose: assesses motor development delays compared to same age peers (normative data). performance based assessment to evaluate a child’s developmental motor skills.
Ages: birth- 5 years and 11 months of age
Type: standardized, norm-referenced
Advantages:
- standardized, norm-referenced
- quick, easy to administer
- can administer specific subtests independently
- interdisciplinary
Disadvantages:
- poor sensitivity to pick up incremental changes especially in grasp subtest items
- poor description of grasp patterns
- very structured instructions
- Not standardized on children with disabilities or for children using adaptations.
Pediatric Evaluation Disability Inventory (PEDI)
Purpose: evaluates the functional abilities in young children both typically and atypically developing. Can accurately assess which skill the child has attained mastery or competence in. can identify functional deficits, demonstrate progress, establish treatment plans
Ages: paper- 6 months -7 years of age, software- over age of 7
Type: Norm-referenced and criterion-referenced assessment.
Advantages:
- can show improvement
- can involve interview or observation
- electronic scoring with broader age range
- used across continuum of care
- occupation based
- economical
Disadvantages:
- Self report,
- age range stops early for manual forms
- time consuming to give via interview.
Sensory Processing Measure (SPM)
Purpose: To identify sensory concerns by gathering information about a child’s behavior, coordination, and participation at home and in the community, and/or at school.
Ages: 5-12 years old
Type: Norm-referenced standardized assessment
Advantages:
- Based on Ayres SI theory
- comparisons between different environments
- easy to administer and score
- inexpensive
Disadvantages:
- Caregiver report
- scoring-higher raw score=greater dysfunction (backwards scoring system)
- Negative phrasing.
Sensory Processing Measure- Preschool (SPM-P)
Purpose:Provide educational teams with a mechanism to collaboratively assess a student’s functioning within different contexts (environments) and
during varying activities
Ages: extends the SPM down to age 2
Type: Norm referenced, standardized assessment
Advantages:
- assesses 2-5 years old
- inexpensive
- can evaluate sensory vulnerabilities
Disadvantages:
-caregiver report- only as valid as the person completing it.
