Tests of Motor Development

Question 1

School Function Assessment

• Purpose
• Population

Answer 1

• Purpose
  
  • Evaluates and monitor’s a student’s performance of functional tasks and activities
  • Designed to identify a student’s strengths and limitations performing school related tasks
  • Helps identify areas of intervention
  • Monitor student’s progress over time
• Population
  
  • K - 6th grade
• Norm or Criterion Referenced:
  
  • Criterion Referenced

Question 2

Battelle:

• Purpose
• Population

Answer 2

• Purpose:
  
  • To assess development of infants and young children in 5 domains (adaptive, person/social, communication, motor, cognitive).
• Population:
  
  • 0-7 yrs 11 mos

Question 3

Pediatric Evaluation of Disability

• Purpose
• Population

Answer 3

• Purpose
  
  • A comprehensive clinical assessment instrument that samples key functional capabilities and performance in children from the ages of 6 months to 7.5 years
  • Description of functional status
  • Evaluate functional abilities: skill, independence
• Population
  
  • 6 months- 7.5 years old, unless they are severely delayed

Question 4

Dubowitz

• Purpose
• Population

Answer 4

• Purpose
  
  • This exam evaluates both physical and neurological characteristics (ie. appearance, skin texture, motor function and reflexes) to estimate a baby’s gestational age.
  • This test is especially useful in situations when mothers deliver babies but have not received appropriate prenatal care. In these cases, it is difficult to determine if the baby is premature or full-term.
• Population
  
  • Neonates

Question 5

Peabody Developmental Motor Inventory

• Purpose
• Population

Answer 5

• Purpose
  
  • An early childhood motor development program that provides evaluation and training or gross and fine motor skills
• Population
  
  • 0-5 years

Question 6

Brazelton

• Purpose
• Population

Answer 6

• Purpose
  
  • Also known as the neonatal behavioral assessment, this test assesses behaviors across the neonatal period. It is used by clinicians as a way of sensitizing parents to the capacities of their newborn infants and as a way of identifying concerns about the baby. The goal of the NBAS is to identify individual differences in neonatal behavior which describes the current status of the infant’s autonomic and motor states, as well as their social attention systems as they interact with one another.
• Population
  
  • Birth to 2 months

Question 7

Alberta Infant Motor Scale

• Purpose
• Population

Answer 7

• Purpose
  
  • To measure the motor development for infants at risk for motor delay, focusing on obtain motor milestones and components necessary to obtain the milestone.
  • The AIMS takes in consideration three criteria related to the quality of movement: weight distribution, posture, and movement against the force of gravity.
• Population
  
  • Infant (age 0-18 mo.) or until the child is able to walk independently