EVALUATIONS

What are Occupational Pediatric Therapy Evaluations ?

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Evaluations and Assessments are a comprehensive one on one process related to referral concerns of the child.

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Areas of assessment may be foundational skills in the areas of:

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• Fine Motor Skills: The ability to move the small muscles in the hands.

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• Gross Motor Skills: Gross Motor Skills involve the large muscles for running, jumping, lifting, sitting up, throwing, etc.

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• Visual Perceptual Skills: Visual perceptual skills can be broken into three parts - (a) visual spatial - ability to recall spatial location of object or stimuli. (b) visual analysis - processes for locating, recognizing, extracting analyzing, recalling, and manipulating relevant information in their surroundings.

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• Visual Motor Skills: To recognize the use of forms, shapes, figures, and objects.

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• Sensory Processing Skills:  Processing the five senses: vision, auditory, touch, sense of smell, as well as sense of movement and positional sense.

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TESTING

What types of tests are given by pediatric occupational therapists?

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Standardized tests that could be used for your child may include:

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• The PDMS-2: The Peabody Developmental Motor Skill Test is an in depth assessment of gross and fine motor skills.

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• Bruininks - Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency: Goal directed activities to measure a wide array of motor skills in children 4-21. Delivers the most precise and comprehensive measure of motor skills.

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• VMI: Visual Motor Skill Performance Testing. 

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• SCIPT: Education based testing to meet the educational needs of the student.

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• SPM, Sensory Profile Questionnaire: A set of questions to provide a more accurate assessment of the child in different environments.

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• Interactive Metronome Long Form: Pre-testing always includes the Interactive

Metronome Long Form. It measures how close to a metronome beat a learner can consistently respond.