The assessment is also appropriate for clients hoping to determine whether or not on-going OT services are appropriate for their child or if a different program/approach would be a better fit.
The assessment aims to highlight a child’s strengths, embrace their individual differences, and identify challenges affecting their ability to do everything they need and want to do.
The OT will utilize an approach that includes play-based clinical observations and appropriate standardised assessment measures designed to screen for difficulties in areas including:
- Gross motor skills (e.g. muscle tone, endurance, bilateral coordination/sequencing, joint stability).
- Fine motor skills (e.g. in-hand manipulation, pincer/tripod finger grasp, finger isolation).
- Visual perception.
- Sensory processing and modulation.
- Interoceptive awareness
- Social-emotional development.
- Written output.
The assessment aims to highlight a child’s strengths, embrace their individual differences and identify challenges affecting their ability to do everything they need and want to do.
The OT will utilise an approach that includes play-based clinical observation and comprehensive standardised assessment measures to asses skill areas including:
- Gross motor skills (e.g. muscle tone, endurance, bilateral coordination/sequencing, joint stability).
- Fine motor skills (e.g. in-hand manipulation, pincer/tripod finger grasp, finger isolation).
- Visual perception.
- Sensory processing and modulation.
- Interoceptive awareness
- Social-emotional development.
- Written output.
- Time for your child’s treating OT to review all documentation provided
- Report time to compile an OT Care Plan including a brief summary of clinical impressions and goals to guide on-going treatment