Define "normal" for me...
Clinical Application
Legalities
Which test is best?
Mixed Bag
100
The percentile rank of children who demonstrate the skill level matched at the peak of the bell curve for a given exam.
What is 50%?
100
The reason a pediatrician refers a two and a half year old child whom he/she suspects may have cerebral palsy for developmental testing.
What is diagnostic purposes?
100
This is the entity that must provide specialized educational services for children with a variety of designated disabilities.
What is the school?
100
This is the type of assessment tool that would be best utilized with a large crowd to rule in children with potential risk of developmental delay.
What is a screening tool?
100
This is the type of score reporting which caregivers tend to like/understand the best.
What is age equivalency score?
200
The number of standard deviations in any direction which are still considered normative.
What is 1 standard deviation?
200
The reason a team of clinicians use a developmental assessment in a NICU follow-up clinic over time.
What is for diagnostic and/or prognostic reasons?
200
The level of government at which the law is controlled for qualifying for special education services.
What is the state?
200
This is the type of developmental assessment that should be employed when looking at all aspects of development (i.e. not just motor)
What is a comprehensive assessment tool?
200
This type of test is completed the same way every single time.
What is a standardized test?
300
This is the designation given to a child who is presenting 1.25 SD below the mean on gross motor development.
What is "mild delay"?
300
The reason that using serial developmental tests is appropriate to justify continued PT services.
What is to document change in function over time?
300
This is the reason that a more objective process (i.e. the use of developmental assessment) was initiated for qualifying for special education.
What is the fiscal burden to the schools to provide this education?
300
This is the kind of test that the Peabody Motor Scales-2 represents.
What is a standardized assessment of motor development?
300
A physical therapist is working with an 11 month old infant who was born at 34 weeks gestation. This is the child's adjusted age.
What is 40 weeks (10 mo)?
400
The level of delay which must be present for a child in a MN school district to receive services for motor delay.
What is "moderate delay"?
400
This is the reason that a physical therapist who is working with a child whose insurance company is denying payment may perform a standardized developmental assessment.
What is to justify services for reimbursement purposes?
400
This is the legislation that initiated access to a "free public education" for all students (i.e. students with and without disabilities).
What is the Education for all Handicapped Children (1975).
400
This type of exam compares an individual child's test scores to the standard score expectation for his/her age.
What is a norm-referenced test?
400
This type of assessment would be most appropriate to develop an intervention strategy for a child who presents with an already known disability.
What is a functional assessment?
500
This is the professional who is qualified to determine if a child presents outside of normative motor development.
What is a physical therapist?
500
A physical therapist performed a standardized assessment which qualified a student to receive services in the school. This is the reason the therapist would perform a second type of developmental assessment.
What is treatment planning and goal development?
500
This is how eligibility is established for an individual.
What is testing OR diagnosis?
500
This is an important metric that measures the true amount of change which has occurred between testing sessions.
What is responsiveness?
500
This is an example of an assessment tool which would be used to measure a child's ability to perform daily activities in the school environment.
What is the School Function Assessment (SFA)?
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