{"id":837,"date":"2013-05-17T10:19:52","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T14:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/veipd.org\/earlyintervention\/?p=837"},"modified":"2020-06-25T02:36:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T02:36:35","slug":"my-top-4-goofy-items-on-developmental-assessments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.veipd.org\/earlyintervention\/2013\/05\/17\/my-top-4-goofy-items-on-developmental-assessments\/","title":{"rendered":"My Top 4 Goofy Items on Developmental Assessments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone other than me struggled to get a 17 month old to &#8220;obtain toy with stick?&#8221; How many 24 month olds have you been able to get to <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-843 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.veipd.org\/earlyintervention\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/shutterstock_4654732-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Writing on Graph with Red Pen\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>cooperate with &#8220;walks approximately on line&#8221; or &#8220;attempt to fold paper?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some items on developmental assessments that are just challenging to administer.\u00a0You can\u00a0find guidance\u00a0in the\u00a0assessment manuals (which if you haven&#8217;t read, please do), but the manuals don&#8217;t always provide information about what the test item <em>really<\/em> means in development.\u00a0These items also should not move directly from the assessment tool to the IFSP as an outcome because a child missed them. When you understand that test items\u00a0are a demonstration of a child&#8217;s understanding and abilities, it will help you interpret <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eipd.vcu.edu\/sub_screening.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">assessments<\/a> more functionally and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eipd.vcu.edu\/sub_ifsp_outcome_dev.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">write better IFSP outcomes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Here are my top\u00a04 goofy assessment items and some information about what these items <em>really <\/em>tell us:<\/h2>\n<p><strong>#4 &#8211; Walks approximately on line (24 months, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaplanco.com\/store\/trans\/productDetailForm.asp?CatID=17%7CEA1035%7C0&amp;PID=8203\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ELAP<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The challenge I always had with this one was getting the toddler to understand what I wanted him to do when I presented him a line of tape on the floor. It&#8217;s just not that fun and is pretty abstract for a 2 year old. It is an imitation task and gives us information about balance, motor planning and coordination.\u00a0 If we could\u00a0observe children in multiple settings for assessment\u00a0rather than\u00a0see them for an hour in a contrived setting, then I think this\u00a0one would be much easier to evaluate because you might see the child imitate peers doing this, walk along a\u00a0line in the parking lot on his way to the park, etc.\u00a0If you can&#8217;t get the child to cooperate, ask his sibling to show him how to do it or ask for the parent&#8217;s help.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-841 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.veipd.org\/earlyintervention\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/shutterstock_69746125-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Toddler Holding Blue Paper\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>#3 &#8211; Attempts to fold paper (24 months, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaplanco.com\/store\/trans\/productDetailForm.asp?CatID=17%7CEA1035%7C0&amp;PID=8203\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ELAP<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This fine motor and cognitive item used to make me internally grimace at each assessment. The toddler would even look at me like &#8220;why am I doing this?&#8221; When you administer this item, you show the child how to fold the paper in half then give him another piece of paper and ask him to fold it. He gets credit if he turns the paper in an attempt to fold it. This item puzzles me about what it shows us, but I think it helps us see if the child can understand the command, figure out how to orient the paper to imitate the task, hold the paper\u00a0between his fingers, attend and persist, and use two hands together. He also has to use his eye-hand coordination to do something he saw done from a different angle. All of these skills are more important than the task but the task itself is important because it has been tested on many 24 month olds and they should be able to do\u00a0this at this age &#8211; but it is not a goal of early childhood to fold paper.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#2 &#8211; Obtain toy with stick (17 months, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaplanco.com\/store\/trans\/productDetailForm.asp?CatID=17%7CEA1035%7C0&amp;PID=8203\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ELAP<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is definately one of my favorite goofy items. I think that, in 15 years of assessing toddlers, I probably had 3 children do this one. It was probably due to my difficulty administering the item, and maybe to the stick quickly turning into a dangerous object. This item shows us that the child can imitate, follow a direction, coordinate\u00a0his movements to bring the toy to him with the stick,\u00a0and understand the use of a tool (the stick) that is not connected to the item he wants. It also shows us how the child problem-solves and persists\u00a0to get this needs met. The ELAP manual says that a child should be able to get the toy with the stick by 20 months. I think this is\u00a0similar cognitively to how a child\u00a0problem-solves\u00a0getting\u00a0his cup that&#8217;s out of reach by pulling a chair over to the counter and climbing up to get it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#1 &#8211; Stirs with spoon in imitation (10 months, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaplanco.com\/store\/trans\/productDetailForm.asp?CatID=17%7CEA1035%7C0&amp;PID=8203\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ELAP<\/a>)<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-838\" src=\"http:\/\/veipd.org\/earlyintervention\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/shutterstock_124755904-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Baby with Cup and Spoon\" width=\"181\" height=\"121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.veipd.org\/earlyintervention\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/shutterstock_124755904-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.veipd.org\/earlyintervention\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/shutterstock_124755904.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 181px) 100vw, 181px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, I have actually heard interventionists tell parents that a next skill for a child is learning to stir with a spoon. What? This item shows a child&#8217;s ability to imitate an unfamiliar action, coordinate his wrist and finger movements, combine two objects, and perhaps use two hands together if he holds the cup and spoon. It is not, in and of itself, an important skill. Please don&#8217;t tell parents to teach their children to stir. Please do explain to them what this skill tells us and how it relates to the child&#8217;s other strengths and needs.<\/p>\n<p>Administering test items as instructed is important for the validity of test results. Just because items might seem goofy doesn&#8217;t mean that they aren&#8217;t important to determining how a child&#8217;s development compares to other children on the test. Follow the instructions and administer the items correctly, then explain to the parent what the items are\u00a0assessing and how\u00a0they\u00a0inform us about why\u00a0the child\u00a0can or cannot do certain activities in his everyday life. Even the goofy items can help you understand a child&#8217;s development if you put them in the right context.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your favorite (or least favorite) test items? How do you explain them to families during the assessment?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone other than me struggled to get a 17 month old to &#8220;obtain toy with stick?&#8221; How many 24 month olds have you been able to get to cooperate with &#8220;walks approximately on line&#8221; or &#8220;attempt to fold paper?&#8221; Some items on developmental assessments that are just challenging to administer.\u00a0You can\u00a0find guidance\u00a0in the\u00a0assessment manuals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[139,11,14],"tags":[23,31,48,50,86,96,112,125],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-ifsp-development","category-practical-strategies-for-intervention","tag-assessment","tag-challenges","tag-early-childhood","tag-early-intervention","tag-parent-professional-partnership","tag-research-to-practice","tag-strategies","tag-toddlers","clearfix"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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