| CHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER of Battle Creek, MI |
YOUR CHILD'S EVALUATION The objective of our evaluation is to determine how your child is processing sensory information and how he/she functions in areas of coordination, attention, activity level, behavior and/or social skills. An evaluation is scheduled for a one hour block of time. Part of the hour will be spent assessing your child and the rest talking to you. We will explain the results of the evaluation and get additional information from you. If possible we will talk to you without your child listening. If necessary, we call a parent after the evaluation in order to talk privately. The evaluation is different for each child depending on the presenting problems. For most children we do standardized testing to define the treatment needs. For infants and toddlers, or children who cannot cooperate with testing, the therapist may do structured or unstructured clinical observations. We do not want a child to be frightened or feel negative about their first experience with us. If your child cannot handle formal testing, we will find alternative ways of assessment. You are welcome, and encouraged, to be with your child during the evaluation. This will help your child feel comfortable and allow you to see your child's responses. (It can be difficult to do an evaluation with siblings present, so if you plan to observe the evaluation you need to make child care arrangements for your other children). Your child may need information about the evaluation ahead of time. We generally suggest you tell your child we will be playing games. With older children, we may tell them that we want to see how they use their eyes, hands and muscles. Often, children need to be reassured that we will do nothing that hurts, such as shots. You need to fill out the forms detailed in our email to you and bring them to your appointment. Your responses on these forms give us information that is critical to our evaluation process and will enhance our ability to assist you. We want your child to leave the evaluation feeling comfortable in our clinic and good about the things he/she did well and we want you to feel you received a service of value! We look forward to meeting you and your child! |
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