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The narrow, shallow bowl allows food to slide off easily, and the durable plastic construction stands up against reflex biting. However, while our spoons are very strong, please avoid using with clients who have a severe bite reflex.
Obtain a broad picture of a child's abilities with the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities. Attractive materials and game-like tasks will work to your advantage when assessing verbal, perceptual, and quantitative abilities, as well as memory and motor development. Carefully Designed TasksTasks are designed to be suitable for both sexes, as well as for children of various ethnic, regional, and socioeconomic backgrounds. School Achievement CorrelationThe McCarthy General Cognitive Index (GCI) correlates significantly with first-grade achievement in reading and arithmetic.
Quickly and easily identify children who may be at risk for learning problems with the McCarthy Screening Test (MST). With six component scales drawn from the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities, MST is predictive of a child's ability to cope with schoolwork in the early grades. Screen for Handicaps Poor performance on MST may indicate further assessment is needed for one or more of the handicaps outlined in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Assesses Key Abilities The MST assesses abilities critical to a child's success in school, including ones that lie within the sensorimotor, as well as in the cognitive domain.
The authors of the best-selling Pre-Feeding Skills bring you another invaluable resource for guiding mealtime experiences. The Mealtime Participation Guide expands on the participation experiences listed in the authors' first edition, Pre-Feeding Skills: A Comprehensive Resource for Feeding Development. This guide provides an extensive set of activities to guide you through the physical mealtime experiences, as well as imagined mealtime, developmental, sensory, and interactional experiences. You can complete the feeding activities individually or use them to guide group instruction. The guide is also helpful for training students, staff, and parents.
This short but comprehensive preschool assessment instrument will help you evaluate children for mild to moderate developmental delays. With the Miller Assessment for Preschoolers (MAP™), items are objective, easy to administer, and provide you with a broad overview of a child's developmental status in comparison to other children the same age. MAP can be used for in-depth assessments and for creating a framework from which IEPs and IFSPs can be formulated. A color-coded Record Form clearly delineates age-appropriate performance for each item. A supplemental Observation Sheet for recording subjective impressions of the child's test performance is provided.
Assess a child’s functional performance related to school participation
Assessment of psychosocial factors that may support or interfere with a chronically ill patient's course of medical treatment.
Dr. Theodore Millon's theory of personality has guided the development and enhancement of the Millon™ Inventories. These brief inventories are closely correlated with DSM™ classification system of personality disorders.
Assessment of DSM-IV®-related personality disorders and clinical syndromes.
Now there's a tool for evaluating handwriting that addresses manuscript and D'Nealian print Use the Minnesota Handwriting Assessment with first and second grade students to analyze handwriting skills, including standard manuscript and D'Nealian styles of print. This test has normative information, substantiating its test/retest reliability. Use the test to identify how students are performing in relationship to their peers. It also demonstrates progress as a result of intervention. Scores are based on rate and five quality categories— Legibility, Form, Alignment, Size, Spacing. Test students individually or in groups.
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) instrument, the restandardized version of the original MMPI instrument, is an empirically-based assessment of adult psychopathology used by clinicians to assist with the diagnosis of mental disorders and the selection of appropriate treatment.
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent (MMPI-A) assessment helps identify personal, social, and behavioral problems in adolescents.
Assessment of major symptoms of psychopathology, personality characteristics, and behavioral proclivities.
In Just 10 weeks improve the overall quality of movement patterns in your children who are developmentally delayed. Use this challenging program to assess a child's level of motoric development. Easily create individualized programs for your students 4 to 12 years old. You'll have the same sequenced activities for eight motor activity stations including perceptual motor, manipulation, body awareness/stunts, locomotor, and fine and visual motor. Plus, you'll get an expanded introduction and bibliography.
Achieve a greater understanding of normal development with Lois Bly's illustrated guide. Use this comprehensive resource to detect the development of different motor skills during the first year of life. Discover how specific motor components build the foundation for babies to achieve developmental milestones. You'll find that the progression of skills is clearly illustrated by remarkable photographs. Noted physical therapist Lois Bly clarifies the difference between normal variations and pathology. Follow the monthly progression that's enhanced by 300 photographs. You'll find an informative discussion that includes an overview and specific developmental characteristics.
Find oral motor activities for improving articulation in one convenient source. Using games, rhymes, and manipulative tasks, this manual helps preschool and primary school children with hearing impairment, oral dyspraxia, and articulation problems. Children will learn verbal skills through oral imitation and motor planning. The games target higher organizational levels of motor planning for oral motor skills. Illustrations, photographs, and detailed instructions provide precise information for applying oral motor activities. Activities are appropriate for individual, small group, or large group therapy.
The Movement Assessment Battery for Children—Second Edition (Movement ABC-2), a revision of the world renowned Movement Assessment Battery for Children, can be used to identify children who are significantly behind their peers in motor development, assist in planning an intervention program in either a school or clinical setting, measure change as a result of intervention, or serve as a measurement instrument in research involving motor development.
A developmentally integrated system that assesses language, motor, and perceptual abilities.
Assess anxiety symptoms across clinically significant symptom domains with this empirically-derived instrument —Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC). The MASC consists of the following scales and indexes: Physical Symptoms Scale Somatic Symptoms SubscaleTense Symptom Subscale, Social Anxiety Scale Humiliation Fears Subscale Performance Fears Subscale, Harm Avoidance Scale Perfectionism Subscale Anxious Coping Subscale, Separation/Panic Scale, Anxiety Disorders Index, Total Anxiety Index, Inconsistency Index. The instrument is simple to administer and score. A respondent can complete the 39-item assessment on a special QuikScore™ Form in approximately 15 minutes, and a clinician can score and transfer the assessment results to a Profile Form in under 10 minutes.