Paediatric Occupational Therapy Assessments & Reports
Paediatric Occupational Therapists complete comprehensive and tailored assessments and reports, using a range of standardised and non-standardised assessment methods.
Paediatric OT assessments can investigate the following areas:
- Fine Motor Skills (e.g. hand dominance, handwriting, scissoring)
- Gross Motor Skills (e.g. running, jumping, ball skills)
- Motor Planning & Organisational Skills (e.g. learning new skills, managing belongings, following instructions)
- Sensory Processing (i.e. visual, auditory, tactile, proprioceptive, vestibular, gustatory, olfactory)
- Visual Perception
- Visual Motor Integration (i.e. hand-eye coordination)
- Play & Social Skills (e.g. making friends, turn taking, sharing)
- Attention
- Emotional Regulation (e.g. separation difficulties, frustration, anxiety)
- Self-Care / ADLs (e.g. feeding, dressing, grooming, toileting, showering)
Standardised Assessments that we commonly use include:
- Clinical Observations of Motor and Postural Skills (2nd Edition)
- The Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration
- The Motor-Free Visual Perception Test 4
- Sensory Profile 2
- The McMaster Handwriting Assessment Protocol