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FACT SHEET
List of Pediatric Assessment Tools Categorized by ICF Model

INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this document is to organize tests and measures by the domains of the ICF Model. Tests included were published or revised after 1990.
Tools on this list are commonly used but inclusion of a tool does not equate with an endorsement or statement of reliability and validity. Users must access
manuals and research reports for more details. The reference list at the end of the document is a select list of key resources.
Additional tools can be found in the companion document, List of Pediatric PT Assessment Tools (http://pediatricapta.org). If you have additional tools or
measures that you believe should be added to this list, please e-mail suggestions to the APTA Academy of Pediatric Physical Therapy at [email protected]

TABLE 1: Participation
Multidomain Quality of Life Health Status
• Assessment of Life Habits (LIFE-H)38 • • Child Health Index of Life with Disabilities36 • Child Health and Illness Profile-
Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM)25 • Kidscreen Adolescent Edition (CHIP-E) •
• Children's Assessment of Participation and Enjoyment • Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PEDS QL) • Pediatric Child Health Questionnaire (CHQ)
(CAPE)21 Outcomes Data Collection • Child Health Assessment
• Participation and Environment Measure - Children and Instrument (PODCI) Questionnaire (CHAQ) •
3
Youth (PEM-CY)9 • Quality of Well Being Scale (QWB) Health Utilities Index-Mark

• Preferences for Activities of Children (PAC)21

• School Function Assessment (SFA) •
Vineland Adaptive

TABLE 2: Personal/Contextual
• Child Occupational Self Assessment24
• Early Coping Inventory
• Devereux Early Childhood Assessment (DECA)
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TABLE 3: Activity
Multidomain Gross Motor Fine Motor

• Activities Scale for Kids (ASK) • • Alberta Infant Motor Scales (AIMS) • • Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of
Engine Proficiency (BOTP-2)
Battelle Developmental Inventory, Second Edition • Bayley Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor
Proficiency (BOTP-2) • Jebsen Taylor Test of Hand
Scales of Infant Development-III • Brigance
function
• Gross Motor Function Measurement
Inventory of Early Development, Revised Edition • Canadian
(GMFM)40,41,46 • Nine-Hole Peg Test •
Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) • Functional
• Gross Motor Performance Measure6 Peabody Developmental
Independence Measure for Children (WeeFIM) • Harris Infant Motor Motor Scales Second
• High Level Mobility Assessment Tool
Test (HINT) Edition (PDMS-2) •
(HIMAT)55
• Hawaii Early Learning Profile (HELP-Strands) • Merrill- • Motor Function Measure2 Assisting Hand Assessment •

Palmer Scale, Revised Shriner's Upper Extremity

• Peabody Developmental Motor •
Assessment
• Miller Assessment of Preschoolers
Scales Second Edition (PDMS-2) • Test
• Melbourne Unilateral Upper
• Miller Function and Participation Scales • of Gross Motor Development, 2nd Edition Limb Function (MUUL)
Movement Assessment Battery for Children (Movement ABC-2) • Pediatric (TGMD-2)50

Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI) • Pediatric Evaluation • Test of Infant Motor Performance
(TIMP)
of Disability Inventory Computer Adaptive Test16
• POSNA Pediatric Musculoskeletal Functional Health Questionnaire

• School Function Assessment (SFA) •

Toddler and Infant Motor Evaluation (TIME) •
Transdisciplinary Play-Based Assessment, Second Edition (TPBA2) • Vineland
Adaptive Behavior Sales, Second Edition
Tools Gait / Walking • play

• Ages & Stages Questionnaires (ASQ-3) • Dynamic Gait Index28,30 • • Preschool Play Scale •
Assessment, Evaluation, and Programming System for Infants and Functional Mobility Assessment43 Test of Playfulness (ToP)17
Children (AEPS)– Second Edition • • Observational Gait Scale (OGS) • Developmental Screening
Bayley Infant Neurodevelopmental Screener (BINS) • Carolina Standardized Walking Obstacle
Curriculum for Infants and Toddlers with Special Needs, Course18,23
Third Edition • Timed Obstacle Ambulation Test
• Carolina Curriculum for Preschoolers with Special Needs • FirstSTEp: • Timed Up and Down Stairs test56
Screening Test for Evaluating Preschoolers • Motor Skills • Timed “Up & Go” (TUG)54
Acquisition in the First Year and checklist

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TABLE 4: Body Structures/Function

Coordination Endurance/Energy Fitness Measurements

Cardiopulmonary Anthropometrics
Expenditure •
• Blood Pressure37,51 • Clinical Observation of Motor and Early Activity Scale for • Fitness Gram27 • Body Composition
• Heart Rate37 Postural Skills (COMPS) Endurance (EASE)53 • Presidential (BMI)7
• Oxygen Saturation • • Florida Apraxia Screening Test • Gross • Energy Expenditure Index45 Physical Fitness • Height/Weight8,19,20,35
Motor Performance Measure • 6-Minute Walk Test26 • Test • Leg Length
Respiratory Pattern and
Rate37 (GMPM)6 • 30-Second Walk Test22
• Skin Color Selective Control Assessment of the Lower

• Skin Turgor Extremity • Test of

Ideational Praxis

Posture/Balance Posture/Structural Integrity Pain ROM Spasticity

• Early Clinical • Adam Forward Bend Test • Children's Hospital of • Ely's Test • • Modified Ashworth
Assessment of • Anterior/Posterior Drawer Test • Apley's Eastern Ontario Pain Scale Hamstring Length Scale (MAS)5
Balance (ECAB) • Test • Arch (CHEOPS)31 Test10 • Modified Tardieu
Movement Index33 • CRIES Scale (Cries, • Modified Ober Test Test
Assessment of Infants Require Oxygen, Increased Strength/Muscle
• Beighton Scale of Hypermobility47 • Popliteal Angle •
(MAI) Vital Signs, Expression, power
• Craig's Test • Prone Hip
• Pediatric Balance Sleep) Extension Test4 • Muscle Manual
Galleazi Sign • • Faces Pain Scale3
Scale (PBS)14,15 • Testing
Heel Bisector Angle • • Spinal Alignment and
Pediatric Clinical Test of • FLACC (Faces, Legs, • Dynamometer
Lachman's Test Range of
Sensory Interaction for Activity, Crying, Motion Measurement Measurement29 •
Balance • Navicular Drop Test33,42 Consolability Behavioral Muscle Power12 •
(SAROMM) •
(PCTSIB)44 • McMurray's Test • Pain Scale)32 Selective Control
Straight Leg Test
• Pediatric Reach Test Ryder's Test • • Individualized Numeric Pain Assessment of the
• Thomas Test
(Pediatric Functional Talar Tilt Scale (INRS)49 Lower Extremity
Reach Test)1,11,15,39,52 • Transmalleolar Axis • Numeric Scale (SCALE)13
• Timed Up and Down • Oucher Scale
Stairs Test
• Visual Analogue Scale48
Sensory Processing • Visual Motor / Perception • Reflexes Multi

Infant/Toddler Sensory Developmental Test of Visual Motor • Movement Assessment of • Quick Neurological
Profile Integration • Infants (MAI) Screening Test-II
• Sensory Integration and Test of Visual Motor Skills-3 (QNST-II)
Praxis Test (SIPT) (TVMS-3)
• Sensory Profile

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