Assessment (Children)

The Sensory Profile 2 is a set of norm-referenced, standardized questionnaires designed to assess the sensory processing patterns of children from birth through 14 years, 11 months in in the context of home, school, and community-based activities. The information obtained from the Sensory Profile 2 is very useful for determining what sensory systems the child may be having difficulty processing, as well as overall information on how the child is interpreting sensory information, adapting to sensory stimuli in the environment, and reacting to or participating in daily activities.

This standardized test is designed to identify deficits in visual perception, fine motor skills, and hand-eye coordination. It can be administered to individuals from 2 years through young adulthood.

This standardized assessment uses engaging, goal-directed activities to measure a wide array of motor skills in individuals ages 4 through 21. The BOT-2 uses a subtest and composite structure that highlights motor performance in the broad functional areas of stability, mobility, strength, coordination, and object manipulation. It is used as a screening device for the intervention of activities, assessing academic readiness in young children.

This norm-referenced tool is designed to assess children aged 2:6 years to 7:11 years who may have mild to moderate developmental delays in functional motor abilities in the areas of Visual Motor Skills, Fine Motor Skills and Gross Motor Skills. This tool assesses a child’s functional performance primarily related to school participation.

This screening tool is designed to identify subtle, developmental motor coordination problems or dyspraxia in children aged 5-15 years. It is based on six of the Clinical Observations developed by Dr. A. Jean Ayres to supplement information received from standardized tests. It offers standardized administration procedures and generates a score to help identify a number of subtle motor coordination problems in children.

This standardized assessment combines in-depth assessment of gross and fine motor skills of children from birth through 5 years.

This standardized test assesses visual-perceptual strengths and challenges, using a response format suitable for all children, including those with disabilities aged 5-21 years.

Wechsler Preschool & Primary Scale of Intelligence - Fourth UK Edition (WPPSI-IV UK)

An innovative, reliable and valid measure of cognitive development for young children. This test is made up of a number of short tasks, which are organized to measure different aspects of intellectual ability. The resulting scales give an idea of a child’s cognitive strengths and areas of weakness.

Age: 2 years 6 months to 7 years 7 months Time: 90 mins

Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children 5th Edition (WISC-V)

Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children® Fifth Edition (WISC®-V) is an intelligence test that measures a child’s intellectual ability and 5 cognitive domains that impact performance.

This test is made up of a number of short tasks, which are organized to measure different aspects of intellectual ability. The resulting scales give an idea of a child’s cognitive strengths and areas of weakness in terms of verbal comprehension, visual spatial and fluid reasoning, working memory and processing speed. It also generates a full scale IQ (FSIQ) score which is considered the best indication of a child’s general intellectual abilities.

Age: 7-16 years

Time: 90-150 minutes

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale - Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV)

The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV) is the most advanced and widely used adult measure of cognitive and intellectual ability. It provides you with the most advanced measure of cognitive ability in adults. It generates a full-scale IQ (FSIQ) which is considered the best indication of an individual’s general intellectual abilities.

Age: 16 years +

Time: 90-150 minutes

Wechsler Individual Achievement Test - Third Edition (WIAT-III)

Wechsler Individual Achievement Test Third Edition (WIAT®-III) is an individually administered achievement test to measure basic and broad skills for reading, writing, and math. The WIAT-IIl provides a reliable assessment of reading, language and numerical attainment in one test. There are sixteen subtests included in the WIAT, and they are broken down to measure listening, speaking, reading, writing, and mathematical skills.

Age: 4 to 25 years 11 months

Time: 130 mins

Woodcock-Johnson Test of Cognitive Abilities - Fourth Edition (WCJ-IV)

Similar to WIAT-III, the Woodcock Johnson Tests of Achievement tests an individual’s strengths and weaknesses across three academic skills: reading, writing, and math.

Age: 2 to 80 years

Time: 130 mins

Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System^TM (D-KEFS^TM)

The Delis-Kaplan Executive Function SystemTM (D-KEFSTM) is the first standardized set of tests to evaluate higher level cognitive functions in both children and adults. It provides a comprehensive assessment of higher-level thinking and cognitive flexibility.

Age: 8 years to 89 years

Time: 45 minutes

NEPSY - Second Edition (NEPSY-II)

NEPSY®-II results provide information relating to attention and executive functions, language and communication, sensorimotor function, visuospatial function and learning and memory in children up to 16 years old.

Age: 5 years to 16 years

Time: 45 minutes

Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule

The ADOS-2 is a semi-structured assessment of communication, social interaction, and play (or imaginative use of materials) for individuals suspected of having autism or other pervasive developmental disorders. The ADOS consists of standardized activities that allow the examiner to observe the occurrence or non-occurrence of behaviors that have been identified as important to the diagnosis of autism and other pervasive developmental disorders across developmental levels and chronological ages. The ADOS provides a 45- 60 minute observation period during which the examiner presents the individual being assessed with numerous opportunities to exhibit behaviors of interest in the diagnosis of autism through standard 'presses' for communication and social interaction. 'Presses' consist of planned social occasions in which it has been determined in advance that behavior of a particular type is likely to appear.

Age: 1 year to Adulthood

Time: 120 minutes

The Children's Memory Scale^TM (CMS)

The Children's Memory ScaleTM (CMS) is used to assess a child’s memory abilities by comparing memory and learning to ability, attention, and achievement.

Age: 5-16 years

Time: 30 minutes

Wechsler Memory Scale - Fourth Edition (WMS-IV)

Wechsler Memory Scale® Fourth Edition (WMS®-IV) is the most widely used scale of adult memory. Assess verbal and non-verbal memory abilities in young to older adults.

Age: 18 years +

Time: 150 minutes

Behavior Assessment System for Children | Third Edition (BASC-3)

A comprehensive set of rating scales and forms, the BASC-3 helps you understand the social, emotional, or behavioral concerns for children and adolescents.

Age: 2-21 years

Time: 60 minutes

The Conners 3rd Edition^TM

The Conners 3rd EditionTM is a thorough assessment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and its most common comorbid problems and disorders in children and adolescents aged 6 to 18 years. It is a multi-informant assessment that takes into account home, social, and school settings, with rating forms for parents, teachers, and youth.

Age: 6 to 18 years

Time: 30 minutes

Thematic Apperception Test

Thematic Apperception Test reveals some of the dominant drives, emotions, conflicts, and complexities of an individual’s personality.

Age: 5 to 79 years

Time: 60 minutes

Story Stem Assessment Profile​​​​​​​

The SSAP is a clinical and non-intrusive tool for examining young children’s mental representations of attachment and relationships.

Age: 4 - 10 years

Time: 60 minutes

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory®-2

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory®-2 is the most widely used and researched test of adult psychopathology. Assisting diagnosis of mental disorders and selection of appropriate treatment methods, the MMPI®-2 test meets mental health professional assessment needs.

Age: 14 - 18 (Adolescent Version), 18 - 80 (Adult Version)

Time: 60 minutes

Rorschach Inkblot Test

Rorschach® is the most widely used projective test in diagnosing and treating individuals with a variety of psychological problems and psychiatric disorders.

Age: 16 years+

Time: 60 minutes

Thematic Apperception Test

Thematic Apperception Test reveals some of the dominant drives, emotions, conflicts, and complexities of a client’s personality.

Age: 5 to 79 years

Time: 60 minutes

Roberts-2

Helps evaluate a child's social understanding and conflicts by using a unique free narrative storytelling format.

Age: 6 to 18 years

Time: 60 minutes

Preschool Language Scale- fifth edition (PLS-5)

The Preschool Language Scale (PLS-5) is designed for use with children aged birth through 7;11 to assess language development and identify children who have a language delay or disorder. The test aims to identify receptive and expressive language skills in the areas of attention, gesture, play, vocal development, social communication, vocabulary, concepts, language structure, integrative language, and emergent literacy. The PLS-5 aids the clinician in determining strengths and weaknesses in these areas in order to determine the presence and type of language disorder (e.g. receptive, expressive, and mixed), eligibility for services and to design interventions based on norm-referenced and criterion referenced scores.

Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals- fifth edition (CELF-5)

The Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals (CELF-5) is designed to assess a student’s language and communication skills in a variety of contexts, determine the presence of a language disorder, describe the nature of the language disorder and plan for intervention or treatment. The CELF-5 is a comprehensive and flexible assessment procedure used with children and adolescents aged 5-21. The test identifies a student’s language strengths and weaknesses and can be used to determine eligibility for services, plan curriculum relevant treatment, recommend classroom language adaptations or accommodations and provide performance-based assessment that corresponds to educational objectives.

Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals Screening Test (CELF-5 Screening)

The Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals Screening Test (CELF-5 Screening) is a standardized screening measure available for school-aged students ages 5-21 to quickly determine further testing to identify a language disorder.

Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation - Third edition (GFTA-3)

The Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation-Third Edition (GFTA-3) is a systematic means of assessing the articulation of the consonant and consonant cluster sounds in English for individuals aged 2-21. It provides information about an individual’s speech sound ability by sampling both spontaneous and imitative sound production in single words and connected speech. GFTA-3 provides age-based normative scores separately for females and males for the Sounds-in-Words and Sounds-in-Sentences tests. Intelligibility is reported as a percentage score, and Stimulability information is reported in table format.​​​​​​​

Khan-Lewis Phonological Analysis- third edition (KLPA-3)

The Khan-Lewis Phonological Analysis-Third Edition (KLPA-3) is a norm-referenced analysis of speech development and phonological process usage in individuals aged 2-21. The analysis is used to identify frequency of usage of twelve Core Phonological Processes grouped into four types of processes (manner, place, reduction and voicing Processes), twelve Supplemental, and other processes used by the individual. The KLPA-3 requires the administration of the 60 target words of the Sounds-in-Words test in the Goldman- Fristoe Test of Articulation-Third Edition (GFTA-3).

Rossetti Infant-Toddler Language Scale

The Rossetti Infant-Toddler Language Scale is a criterion-referenced instrument that assesses Interaction-Attachment, Pragmatics, Gesture, Play, Language Comprehension, and Language Expression in children birth to ages 3. Behaviors can be directly elicited from the child, directly observed, or reported by parent or caregiver to credit the child's performance. Results reflect the child's mastery of skills in each of the areas assessed at three-month intervals across developmental domains tested. The test items guide you in directing and structuring observations in order to monitor the child's progress in language developmental areas. Severity rating guidelines help you interpret the results and confidently communicate the severity of the child's delay.

Children's Communication Checklist - Second edition (CCC-2)

The Children's Communication Checklist (CCC-2) is a norm-referenced measure designed to assess children’s communication skills in the areas of pragmatics, syntax, morphology, semantics, and speech. It is used with children aged 4-16 who speak in sentences. The CCC-2 is administered using a Caregiver Response Form on which the caregiver rates the frequency with which the child demonstrates the communication behavior described in each item. While this checklist assesses a broad range of communication skills, social communication skills are the focus of this instrument. Areas assessed include: Coherence, Initiation, Scripted Language, Context, Nonverbal Communication, Social Relations, and Interests.

Language Use Inventory (LUI)

The Language Use Inventory (LUI) is a standardized parent-report questionnaire for assessing pragmatic language development in children 18 to 47 months of age.

Oral Speech Mechanism Screening Examination - Third edition (OSMSE-3)

The Oral Speech Mechanism Screening Examination–Third Edition (OSMSE-3) provides an efficient, quick, and reliable method to examine the oral speech mechanism of all types of speech, language, and related disorders where oral structure and function is of concern. It is used for all types of clients and problems and requires only 5 to 10 minutes to administer.

Gray Oral Reading Test Fifth Edition (GORT-5)

Gray Oral Reading Test Fifth Edition (GORT-5) is one of the most widely used measures of oral reading fluency and comprehension.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The Sensory Profile^TM 2

The Sensory Profile 2 is a set of norm-referenced, standardized questionnaires designed to assess the sensory processing patterns of children from birth through 14 years, 11 months in in the context of home, school, and community-based activities. The information obtained from the Sensory Profile 2 is very useful for determining what sensory systems the child may be having difficulty processing, as well as overall information on how the child is interpreting sensory information, adapting to sensory stimuli in the environment, and reacting to or participating in daily activities.

Ayres’ Sensory Integration ® (ASI): Structured Clinical Observations

Trained staff use structured clinical neurological observations to form part of the comprehensive assessment needed to understand the sensory systems and how challenges to sensory registration, sensory processing and sensory integration contribute to difficulties participating in activities of daily life. During assessment for sensory integration difficulties, a therapist will use clinical reasoning to start to hypothesise which sensory systems may be contributing to a person’s presentation and current difficulties in participation in everyday life.

Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration- 6th Edition

This standardized test is designed to identify deficits in visual perception, fine motor skills, and hand-eye coordination. It can be administered to individuals from 2 years through young adulthood.

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

This standardized assessment uses engaging, goal-directed activities to measure a wide array of motor skills in individuals ages 4 through 21. The BOT-2 uses a subtest and composite structure that highlights motor performance in the broad functional areas of stability, mobility, strength, coordination, and object manipulation. It is used as a screening device for the intervention of activities, assessing academic readiness in young children.

The Miller Function & Participation Scales (M-FUN)

This norm-referenced tool is designed to assess children aged 2:6 years to 7:11 years who may have mild to moderate developmental delays in functional motor abilities in the areas of Visual Motor Skills, Fine Motor Skills and Gross Motor Skills. This tool assesses a child’s functional performance primarily related to school participation.

Clinical Observations of Motor and Postural Skills - 2nd Edition (COMPS)

This screening tool is designed to identify subtle, developmental motor coordination problems or dyspraxia in children aged 5-15 years. It is based on six of the Clinical Observations developed by Dr. A. Jean Ayres to supplement information received from standardized tests. It offers standardized administration procedures and generates a score to help identify a number of subtle motor coordination problems in children.

Peabody Developmental Motor Scales- 2nd Edition (PDMS–2)

This standardized assessment combines in-depth assessment of gross and fine motor skills of children from birth through 5 years.

Test of Visual Perceptual Skills- 4th Edition (TVPS-4)

This standardized test assesses visual-perceptual strengths and challenges, using a response format suitable for all children, including those with disabilities aged 5-21 years.