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Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile®

The Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile is a self-questionnaire that helps you understand sensory processing patterns and effects on functional performance.

Sensory

Attention Process Training II (APT-II)

Attention Process Training-II (APT-II) is a program to help retrain attention and concentration deficits in adolescents and adults with brain injury and mild to sever attention deficits.

Autism/ADHD

BASC™-2 Behavioral and Emotional Screening System (BASC-2 BESS)

The BASC-2 Behavioral and Emotional Screening System (BASC-2 BESS) screeners identify students at risk for behavior and emotional problems.

Social-Emotional/Behavior,Autism/ADHD

BASC™-2 Progress Monitor

Use the BASC™-2 Progress Monitor to easily monitor progress after behavioral interventions. Covers externalizing and ADHD Problems, Internalizing Problems, Social Withdrawal and Adaptive Skills.

Social-Emotional/Behavior,Autism/ADHD

Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration, 6th Edition (BEERY™ VMI), The

The Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration (BEERY VMI), helps assess visual-motor skills in children and adults.

Motor/Visual,Developmental

Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test, Second Edition (Bender-Gestalt II)

Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test, Second Edition (Bender-Gestalt II) to assess the maturation of visuomotor preceptions of children and adults. Visual-motor integration

Motor/Visual,Developmental

Brief Infant Toddler Social Emotional Assessment (BITSEA)

The Brief Infant Toddler Social Emotional Assessment (BITSEA) helps identify red-flag indicators of atypical behavior in only 10 minutes.

Social-Emotional/Behavior

Brown Attention-Deficit Disorder Scales® (BrownADDScales)

Brown Attention-Deficit Disorder Scales® (BrownADDScales) for a measure of ADD across the life span.

Autism/ADHD

Bruininks Motor Ability Test (BMAT)

The Bruininks Motor Ability Test (BMAT) is an adult adaptation of the widely used BOT–2. The test provides a comprehensive assessment of gross and fine motor skills for adults ages 40 and older.

Motor/Visual

Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency, Second Edition (BOT-2)

The Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency, Second Edition (BOT-2) delivers a most precise measure of motor skills, both gross and fine.

Motor/Visual,Developmental

Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency, Second Edition (BOT-2) Brief Form

The BOT-2 (Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency) Brief Form is a quick motor skills assessment with minimal manipulatives for easier portability

Motor/Visual,Developmental

Carey Temperament Scales (CTS)

Use the Carey Temperament Scales (CTS) for insight into a child's temperament or behavioral style. 5 age-specific scales to examine 9 behavioral characteristics.

Social-Emotional/Behavior

Children's Assessment of Participation and Enjoyment (CAPE) and Preferences for Activities of Children (PAC)

Children's Assessment of Participation and Enjoyment (CAPE) and Preferences for Activities of Children (PAC) helps measure various aspects of participation or engagement in activities.

Participation

Cognitive Assessment of Minnesota, The

Evaluate your adult clients' cognitive abilities with this standardized test. You'll have quick identification of general problem areas presented in a concise hierarchical approach. Understand the theoretical framework and the means to quickly and inclusively assess significant areas of cognition. Use it to establish a baseline as well as to validate treatment. Objective, measurable data facilitate communication between professionals so you can develop a holistic team approach. The Cognitive Assessment of Minnesota is an objective measure that helps strengthen your role in the evaluation of clients with neurologic impairments.

Cognition

Contextual Memory Test

Contextual Memory Test helps assess memory capacity, strategy of use, and recall in your adult clients with memory dysfunction.

Cognition

DeGangi-Berk Test of Sensory Integration (TSI)

The DeGangi-Berk Test of Sensory Integration (TSI) helps detect even subtle developmental deficits that can lead to learning difficulties.

Sensory

Developmental Screening in Early Childhood: A Guide, Fifth Edition

Covers the basics of screening used to identify which children may have learning problems or disabilities.

Developmental Test of Visual Perception, Second Edition (DTVP–2)

Developmental Test of Visual Perception (DTVP) measures visual perception and visual-motor integration skills in children.

Motor/Visual

Dynamic Assessment of Test Accommodations™ (DATA)

Determine appropriate test accommodations based on empirical evidence using the new Dynamic Assessment of Test Accommodations™ (DATA). For individuals or groups of students with learning disabilities in grades 2 through 7, DATA can help multidisciplinary teams objectively determine appropriate test accommodations in order to meet IDEA reauthorization and ADA legislative requirements. Supplements Teacher Input Research findings indicate that DATA-derived decisions regarding accommodations are better predictors of enhanced student performance on standardized tests than teacher-based decisions alone.

Participation

Dynamic Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment for Children (DOTCA-Ch)

Dynamic Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment for Children (DOTCA-Ch) helps measure the cognitive abilities and learning potentional of children with special needs.

Cognition

Dyslexia Early Screening Test–Second Edition (DEST-2)

Dyslexia Early Screening Test–Second Edition profile sstrengths and weaknesses often associated with dyslexia for optimal outcomes.

Developmental

Dyslexia Screening Test–Junior

Use the Dyslexia Screening Test–Junior to identify Students at Risk for Reading Failure.

Developmental

Dyslexia Screening Test–Secondary (DST–S)

Use the Dyslexia Screening Test–Secondary (DST–S) to identify Students at Risk for Reading Failure.

Developmental

Dysphagia Evaluation Protocol

Evaluate patients for swallowing problems in just 30 minutes. This kit includes a pocket-sized version of the evaluation in a flip book format for easy bedside administration. The protocol enables you to quickly evaluate the factors that may contribute to swallowing difficulties. It provides guidelines for conducting a feeding trial at bedside, and helps you know when to initiate, continue, or stop a swallowing evaluation. Results of the evaluation can help you determine whether a patient is appropriate for videofluoroscopy, and assist you in defining the variables and factors that need to be evaluated further through videofluoroscopy.

Ez Write™

Handwriting program that will help students bridge writing to reading

Handwriting

Gilliam Asperger's Disorder Scale (GADS)

The GADS helps evaluate children with unique behavioral problems who may have Asperger's Disorder and differentiate from those who have autism or other related pervasive developmental disabilities.

Developmental,Autism/ADHD

Greenspan Social-Emotional Growth Chart

Greenspan Social-Emotional Growth Chart, a screening questionnaire for infants and young children.

Social-Emotional/Behavior,Autism/ADHD

Handbook of Early Childhood Intervention, Second Edition

This book addresses a broad, multidisciplinary audience including psychologists, early childhood educators, social workers, pediatricians, nurses, child psychiatrists, physical and occupational therapists, speech and language pathologists, and professionals interested in public health and social policy.

Developmental

Helping Babies Learn/Hawaii Developmental Charts

Give families developmental activities for infants which fit into their daily lives. Show parents how to help their birth to 36-month-old children realize their fullest potential. Provide parents with reproducible activities to integrate all aspects of development. Plus, parents learn how their child is doing with six developmental charts summarizing normal skills development for each 3-month time period. Together you and the parent can refer to the charts to track the child's progress. Helping Babies Learn teaches parents how to observe and plan appropriate activities with their child. Parents discover how to use interactions to promote the development of cognition, communication, socialization, movement, self-care, and safety.

Developmental

Independent Living Scales® (ILS ®)

The Independent Living Scales (ILS) is an individually administered assessment of the degree to which adults are capable of caring for themselves and their property.

Cognition

Infant Toddler Social Emotional Assessment (ITSEA)

Intervention guidance for social-emotional and competency developmental delays in young children

Social-Emotional/Behavior

Infant/Toddler Sensory Profile®

Provides a standard method for measuring an infant's sensory processing abilities. Helps therapist, early childhood teachers, and parents profile the effect of sensory processing on functional performance in the daily life of the infant. , Caregivers complete a judgment-based questionnaire, available in English or Spanish, reporting the frequency with which infants respond to various sensory experiences (Almost Always, Frequently, Occasionally, Seldom, or Almost Never. ), Provides validated and reliable scores as well as interpretation of results and case studies for your review.

Sensory

Infant/Toddler Symptom Checklist A Screening Tool for Parents

Use this symptom checklist to screen your 7 to 30-month-old clients for sensory and regulatory disorders. Determine whether a child may have a predisposition toward developing sensory integrative disorders, attention deficits, or emotional, behavioral, or learning difficulties in just 10 minutes.

Motor/Visual,Developmental

Living Sensationally: Understanding Your Senses

Understand your sensory preferences and those of others, and how to make life choices that benefit you.

Developmental

Loops and Other Groups: A Kinesthetic Writing System

Use movement patterns to teach cursive writing—imaginative approach makes learning fun. Help your 2nd grade through high school students with learning disabilities and perceptual delays learn cursive writing—along with their nondisabled peers in a typical mainstreamed classroom. Letters are taught in groups that share common movement patterns. For example, a, d, g, q, and c can be visualized on a clock face, and are called "Clock Climbers. "Easy-to-remember motor and memory cues help students visualize and verbalize while experiencing the "feel" of the letter. Most students can learn formations of all lower-case letters in just six weeks.

Motor/Visual

Miller Assessment for Preschoolers (MAP™)

The Miller Assessment for Preschoolers (MAP) helps you evaluate children for mild to moderate developmental delays.

Motor/Visual,Developmental

Miller Function & Participation Scales

Miller Function & Participation Scales help assess a child’s functional performance related to school participation.

Motor/Visual,Developmental,Participation

Minnesota Handwriting Assessment

Use the Minnesota Handwriting Assessment with first and second grade students to analyze handwriting skills, including standard manuscript and D'Nealian styles of print. Scores are based on 5 categories: legibility, form alignment, size and spacing.

Handwriting

Motor Skills Acquisition in the First Year: An Illustrated Guide to Normal Development

Motor Skills Acquisition in the First Year: An Illustrated Guide to Normal Development by Lois Bly helps achieve a greater understanding of normal motor skills development.

Motor/Visual,Developmental

Movement Assessment Battery for Children - Second Edition (Movement ABC-2)

The Movement Assessment Battery for Children (Movement ABC-2) can help identify problems or delays in motor development and assist in planning an intervention program.

Motor/Visual

Mullen Scales of Early Learning

Mullen Scales of Early Learning is a developmentally integrated system that assesses language, motor, and perceptual abilities.

Developmental

Oral-Motor Feeding Rating Scale

Track the progress of your 1-year-old through adult clients and get results in less than an hour. Use this excellent resource— For initial observations of skill levels, To re-evaluate previously observed skills, As a framework for developing your own therapy plan. You'll have easy-to-use recordkeeping forms that help you screen and categorize the many varieties of oral-motor movements and note specific patterns. As your client eats a typical meal, analyze lip/cheek movement, tongue movement, and jaw movement.

Motor/Visual,Developmental

Parenting Relationship Questionnaire (PRQ)

The Parenting Relationship Questionnaire (PRQ) is part of the BASC-2 family, helping you understand parent-child relationships.

Social-Emotional/Behavior

Peabody Developmental Motor Scales, Second Edition (PDMS–2)

The Peabody Developmental Motor Scales (PDMS–2) combine in-depth assessment with training or remediation of gross and fine motor skills.

Motor/Visual,Developmental

Perceived Efficacy and Goal Setting System (PEGS)

Enable children to participate in goal setting with an innovative measure: Perceived Efficacy and Goal Setting System (PEGS)

Participation

Pervasive Developmental Disorders Screening Test-II (PDDST-II)

Pervasive Developmental Disorders Screening Test-II (PDDST-II) helps detect autism at an early age to begin intervention.

Developmental,Autism/ADHD

Posture and Fine Motor Assessment of Infants

Use this early intervention assessment tool in a clinical or medical setting to determine if a 2- to 12-month-old child's motor skills are developmentally delayed. The assessment yields criterion-referenced scores and information that can be used to plan intervention and treatment programs. The results can also be used to document incremental progress over short time periods. The assessment is based on the dynamical systems theory and on the therapist's non-intrusive observation of the child's posture and fine motor abilities. The parent's presence during the evaluation is encouraged. The evaluation takes just 25 to 30 minutes.

Motor/Visual

Preschool Language Scale, Fourth Edition (PLS-4) English Edition

Preschool Language Scale, Fourth Edition (PLS-4) helps evaluate basic communication and language skills in young children.

Developmental

Preschool Language Scale, Fourth Edition (PLS-4) Spanish Edition

Preschool Language Scale, Fourth Edition (PLS-4) Spanish Edition helps evaluate communicaiton and language skills in young children.

Developmental

Preschool Language Scale-5 Screening Test (PLS-5 Screening Test)

The PLS-5 Screening Test provides an efficient instrument to help you identify infants, toddlers, and young children at risk for a language disorder. Now available in English and in Spanish, this tool can help you screen for a broad spectrum of skills within six speech and language areas—in just 5 to 10 minutes.

Developmental

Preschool Language Scale-5 Spanish Screening Test (PLS-5 Spanish Screening Test)

The PLS-5 Screening Test provides an efficient instrument to help you identify infants, toddlers, and young children at risk for a language disorder. Now available in English and in Spanish, this tool can help you screen for a broad spectrum of skills within six speech and language areas—in just 5 to 10 minutes.

Developmental

Preschool Language Scales, Fifth Edition (PLS™-5)

Preschool Language Scales, Fifth Edition is an interactive, play-based assessment that provides comprehensive information about language skills for children at high risk for moderate-to-severe language delays.

Developmental

Preschool Language Scales, Fifth Edition Spanish (PLS-5™ Spanish)

A measurement of young children’s communication skills, developed for Spanish-speaking preschoolers.

Developmental

Resiliency Scales for Children & Adolescents - A Profile of Personal Strengths (RSCA)

The Resiliency Scales for Children & Adolescents™ measures the personal attributes of the child that are critical for resiliency.

Social-Emotional/Behavior

School Function Assessment (SFA)

School Function Assessment (SFA) helps elementary school students with disabilities succeed by identifying their strengths and needs in important nonacademic functional tasks.

Participation

SenseAbilities Understanding Sensory Integration

SenseAbilities Understanding Sensory Integration: Educate parents and teachers of 5 to 12 year olds with this reproducible training resource.

Sensory

Sensory Profile

The Sensory Profile helps you understand a child's sensory processing patterns in everyday situations and profile the sensory system's effect on functional performance.

Sensory

Sensory Profile School Companion

The Sensory Profile School Companion is a standardized assessment using teacher observations of student sensory processing skills.

Sensory

Sensory Profile Select Scoring Assistant

Select Software that fits with your Profile

Sensory

Sensory Profile Supplement

Now Available – Quadrant Scores and Expanded Cut Scores for Easier Interpretation

Sensory

Severe Impairment Battery (SIB)

The Severe Impairment Battery (SIB) was developed for individuals who are too impaired to complete standard neuro-psychological tests. Cognitive defect, cognitive impairment

Motor/Visual,Sensory,Social-Emotional/Behavior,Participation,Cognition

Shore Handwriting Screening: For Early Handwriting Development

Examine handwriting skills of children from preschool to third grade with Shore Handwriting Screening: For Early Handwriting Development.

Handwriting

Social Skills Improvement System (SSIS) - Performance Screening Guide

The SSIS Performance Screening Guide focuses on observable behaviors in four skill areas: Prosocial Behaviors, Motivation to Learn, Reading Skills, Math Skills.

Social-Emotional/Behavior

Social Skills Improvement System (SSIS) Intervention Guide

This guide is designed to help you plan and implement remediation strategies that are directly tied to problems identified by th SSIS Rating Scales.

Social-Emotional/Behavior

Social Skills Improvement System (SSIS) Rating Scales

The Social Skills Improvement System (SSIS) Rating Scales help evaluate social skills, problem behaviors, and academic competence.

Social-Emotional/Behavior

Spatial, Temporal, and Physical Analysis of Motor Control A Comprehensive Guide to Reflexes and Reactions

Practical information to analyze elements of involuntary movements and automatic reactions with the developing infant or the child who has central nervous system deficits. This resource provides both students and experienced practitioners with a comprehensive overview and historical perspective of the theories of motor control and introduces the Spatial, Temporal, and Physical Theory of Motor Control.

Motor/Visual

Test of Gross Motor Development, Second Edition (TGMD–2)

The Test of Gross Motor Development (TGMD–2) helps identify infants and young children who may benefit from early intervention. Gross motor skill development, special education services, physical education

Motor/Visual,Developmental

The Infanib A Reliable Method for the Neuromotor Assessment of Infants

Determine the tone and posture of 4- to 18-month-old infants with this effective assessment tool. Use to evaluate infants who are born prematurely, treated in neonatal intensive care, affected by sickness such as meningitis and heart failure, or developing slowly. Improve your ability to assess infants with these well-researched techniques. You'll have scoring guidelines and a concise two-page assessment form to measure and score results. Keep your heavy caseload under control with computer-compatible forms.

Motor/Visual,Developmental

The T.I.M.E.® Toddler and Infant Motor Evaluation A Standardized Assessment

Assess quality of movement using this tool Lucy Jane Miller brings you the NDT- and SI-based assessment you've been waiting for. Now you can evaluate the overall quality of infant and toddler movement rather than isolated skills. Use this diagnostic assessment to measure changes in children, birth to 3 1/2 years old, who have atypical motor development. Obtain standard scores on five subtests and track change over time using individual growth scores. Test with confidence using this nationally standardized assessment. You'll have reliable and valid scores based on six years of comprehensive research. Consider the validity of parent-elicited play and naturalistic sequences of movement.

Motor/Visual,Developmental,Social-Emotional/Behavior

Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, Second Edition (Vineland-II)

Since the beginning, Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales has been a leading measure of personal and social skills needed for everyday living. Psychologists and other professionals continue to depend on it to identify individuals who have Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, developmental delays, autism spectrum disorders, and other impairments. Not only does Vineland aid in diagnosis, but it gives you valuable information for developing educational and treatment plans.

Developmental,Social-Emotional/Behavior,Autism/ADHD

Wechsler Test of Adult Reading™ (WTAR™)

The Wechsler Test of Adult Reading (WTAR) helps assess intellectual functioning before the onset of injury or illness.

Cognition

Wessex Head Injury Matrix, The (WHIM)

The Wessex Head Injury Matrix can be used to assess patients in various states of consciousness after suffering a severe head injury.

Motor/Visual,Sensory,Social-Emotional/Behavior,Participation,Cognition