Assessment & Evaluation
A quick check for risk.
What is screening?
An infant examines the environment through sensory modes like mouthing, banging, and shaking.
What is exploratory play?
Intervention by responding to what the child does without forcing a response, following the child's lead.
What is responsive intervention?
This stands for Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
What is IDEA?
Less than 50 words at 25 months, often the first diagnostic symptom of a larger language problem.
What is late language emergence?
The formal diagnosis and eligibility determination.
What is evaluation?
A child uses objects in combination but without regard for their attributes or functions, such as stacking or pushing.
What is relational play?
This strategy manipulates antecedents and consequences around a desired behavior, with adults altering cues and prompts systematically.
What is directive intervention?
An Individualized Family Service Plan that addresses both child (birth to age 2) and family needs affecting the child's development.
What is an IFSP?
A birth weight of less than 2,500 grams (5.5 lb).
What is low birth weight?
This step in the assessment process involves watching the child with a familiar partner in natural routines, noting forms, functions, and partner responses.
What is interactional observation?
A child uses object attributes that are not present or substitutes objects, like using slippers as a cell phone.
What is symbolic play?
A naturalistic, child-directed intervention strategy used during unstructured activities when a child has shown interest in something.
What is incidental teaching?
Settings where the child and family typically are, such as home, daycare, playgrounds, and grocery stores.
What is natural environment?
A genetic disorder caused by having an extra chromosome 21, typically resulting in physical differences and mild to moderate intellectual disability.
What is Down syndrome?
This type of assessment involves one adult working with the child in the center of the room while the rest of the team observes.
What is arena assessment?
The ability to coordinate attention between people and objects for social purposes, usually developing through the first 18 months.
What is joint attention?
Using specific examples in a planned order to help children use a skill in different situations and contexts, with the goal that the child can use the skill everywhere.
What is general case programming?
This team structure has professionals from different disciplines working together, sharing information, and coordinating services while maintaining specific roles.
What is an interdisciplinary team?
A group of chronic brain disorders that affect movement, muscle tone, and muscle coordination due to damage to motor areas of the brain.
What is cerebral palsy (CP)?
This team approach involves professionals from different disciplines sharing roles and skills, where one professional interacts with the child while others observe or coach.
What is transdisciplinary assessment?
This stage occurs when a child communicates intentionally but doesn't use real words yet, using vocalizations, babbling, gestures, and imitation.
What is prelinguistic communication?
Also called naturalistic, contemporary behavioral, or hybrid approaches, this strategy is a mix of behavioral and naturalistic methods designed to feel like real-life interactions.
What are blended strategies?
This 1986 legislation mandated that states establish comprehensive services for children with developmental disabilities and their families.
What is PL-99457?
A significant percentage of young children with this disorder develop typically for approximately the first year and a half of life, followed by rapid deterioration around 28 months.
What is regressive ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder)?