YOUR CHILD'S EVALUATION As the parent, you are welcome to be with your child and observe the evaluation. We encourage this as it helps your child feel comfortable and allows you to see your child's responses. (It is 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). Some children need information about the evaluation ahead of time. We generally tell them that 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. Your child may need to be reassured that we will do nothing that hurts, such as shots. Prior to the evaluation, you need to fill out the forms in the link we emailed to you. Submit the first one and bring the others with you to the evaluation. Your responses on these forms give us information we cannot obtain in the brief time we have to spend with your child. 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. At times, we call a parent after the evaluation in order to talk privately. The actual evaluation is different for each child depending on the presenting problems. For most children we do standardized testing to define our treatment approach. For preschoolers, we often use the Miller Assessment for Preschoolers as it is a very "kid friendly" test that is fun and moves quickly. It is designed to identify preschoolers with mild to moderate sensory processing or coordination deficits. With the school age child we use a variety of tests depending on the child's needs. We often start with the Quick Neurological Screening Test to determine general areas of strengths and weaknesses. For infants and toddlers, or children who cannot cooperate with structured testing, the therapist will do informal clinical observations. We do not want to see a child be frightened or feel negative about their experience on the first visit with us. If your child cannot handle formal testing, we will find alternative ways of assessing his/her skills. 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. We want your child to leave the evaluation feeling comfortable in our clinic and good about the things he/she did well! |
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| CHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER of Battle Creek, MI |
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| CHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER of Battle Creek, MI |
helping your child succeed!