Assessments

Child Sensory Profile 2

A caregiver questionnaire about how your child responds to sensory experiences during everyday life, such as sounds, sights, touch, movement, and body position.

Toddler Sensory Profile 2

The toddler version of the Sensory Profile 2. Caregivers share how their toddler responds to sensory experiences throughout the day.

Sensory Profile 2 School Companion

A questionnaire completed by your child's teacher, showing how sensory processing shows up at school.

Sensory Processing Measure, 2nd ed.

Gives an overall picture of sensory integration differences and sensitivities across different senses and settings.

• Questionnaires for home and school.
• 80 questions, each rated on a 1 to 4 scale.

Structured Observations of Sensory Integration, Motor

Looks at motor skills linked to sensory processing, with a focus on two senses: proprioception (knowing where the body is in space, from muscles and joints) and the vestibular sense (knowing where the head is in space, from the inner ear).

• 14 sets of activities.
• Takes about 40 minutes.

Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency, 2nd ed.

Eight subtests: fine motor precision, fine motor integration, manual dexterity, bilateral coordination, balance, running speed and agility, upper limb coordination, and strength.

• Game-like tasks that feel like play.
• Your therapist picks the subtests that fit your concerns.
• Takes 15 to 60 minutes.

Peabody Developmental Motor Scales, 3rd ed.

An early childhood assessment of gross and fine motor skills. Gross motor subtests cover body control, body transport, and object control. Fine motor subtests cover hand manipulation and eye-hand coordination.

Developmental Assessment of Young Children, 2nd ed.

All domains: cognition, communication, social-emotional development, physical development (fine and gross motor), and adaptive behavior.

• Completed through parent report, observation, or direct assessment.

Roll Evaluation of Activities of Daily Living

Shows how your child takes care of themselves at home, at school, and in the community. Covers two areas: activities of daily living (self-care) and instrumental activities of daily living (home and community tasks).

• A questionnaire.

Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function, 2nd ed.

Rating forms about everyday executive function skills, such as managing impulses, shifting between tasks, handling emotions, working memory, and planning and organizing.

• Completed by parents and teachers.
• A self-report form is available for ages 11 to 18.

General Assessment

When your child's needs call for something not listed here, your therapist can use other measures that fit your child.

Preschool Language Scales, 5th ed.

A play-based language assessment covering early interaction skills, emerging language, and early literacy. Looks at both understanding language and expressing it.

Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language, 2nd ed.

Measures spoken language across four areas: vocabulary and word meaning, grammar, higher-level language such as figurative expressions, and social (pragmatic) language.

• Made up of short tests, about 5 to 10 minutes each.
• Your therapist chooses the tests that fit your child.

Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation, 3rd ed.

Shows how your child produces speech sounds.

• Sounds-in-Words: about 12 minutes, ages 2 and up.
• Sounds-in-Sentences: about 4 minutes, ages 4 and up.

Developmental Assessment of Young Children, 2nd ed.

Communication domain only: receptive language (understanding) and expressive language (using words, sounds, and gestures).

Stuttering Severity Instrument, 4th ed.

Measures stuttering in four areas: how often it happens, how long moments last, physical behaviors that come with it, and how natural speech sounds.

• Takes 15 to 20 minutes.