Assessment | Main areas of development | Subareas | Standardized investigation procedures |
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Biomedical | Motor | Gross motor | Standing on one leg (at least 10 s, both legs, max. 3 trials), jumping on one leg (at least 5 times on each leg), walking like a rope dancer (20 steps forwards and backwards), walking and clasping hands (walk a 10 m walk a 10 m walk clasping hands at each step) |
Fine body coordination | Finger-opposition-test (touching with the thumb all other fingers from 2 to five and backwards, max. 3-4 s pro sequence, per hand), fist-palm-test (one hand clenched to fist the other as palm and change of hands 7-10 times in 10 s), thumb-palm-test (as previous one but with the thumb and palm) | ||
Grapho-motor coordination | Painting of a human figure (head with eyes, mouth, ears, hairs, body and hands and legs), tracing of geometric shapes (four shapes: circle, cross, triangle, square), colouring of objects (colouring should stay within shapes), drawing of curved lines (line should stay within a curved 15 cm long 1 cm wide area), connecting points with a straight line (two points in 15 cm distance should be connected by a straight line) | ||
Language | Pronunciation | Repeating words (8-10 words with specific consonants and vocals have to be repeated), repeating simple sentences (7 defined sentence with increasing difficulties); repeating nonsense-words (7 defined non-sense words with specific consonants and vocals) (one misspelling is acceptable) | |
Grammar | Retelling a short story (5 sentences), explaining rules of a known game (for example football) | ||
Rhythm of speech | Repeating of longer sentences with specific sounds | ||
Cognition | Memory & concentration | Repeating sentences with 7-10 words including 3 adjectives; repeating 4 single numbers in a correct sequence | |
Endurance | Capacity to attend during the examination (15-20 minutes) | ||
Abstraction | Building pairs (14 pictures with household goods), finding a common subject of various objects, finding difference between pictures | ||
Visual perception | Recognition of simple geometric figures or silhouettes of figures and animals | ||
Arithmetics | Counting from 1 to 10 in correct sequence | ||
Psychological | Psychosocial | Erratic behaviour, overly bonded mother (no separation possible during examination), hostility towards examiner | |
Major emotional mood | |||
Psycho-motor agitation, inability to sit calmly during examination |