Prewriting shapes: Pre-Writing skills often follow a developmental pattern, starting with basic scribbling and moving through a sequence. Forming shapes is the foundation for forming letters so it’s a great place to start. The typical development pattern includes: picture from https://www.communityservices.act.gov.au/childdevelopmentservice/4-5-years/movement/prewriting Handwriting: When working on letter formation and pre writing shapes it helps to use a multi-sensory appro

Model of Human Occupation: Developed by Kielhofner in 1970’s MOHO seeks to explain how occupation is motivated, patterned, and performed. Within MOHO, humans are hypothesized as being made up of three interrelated components: volition, habituation, and performance capacity. Volition refers to the motivation for occupation. Habituation refers to the process by which occupation is organised into patterns or routines, and performance capacity refers to the physical and mental ab

Assessment of motor and process skills (AMPs) The Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS) is an innovative observational assessment that is used to measure the quality of a person’s activities of daily living (ADL). It is also my personal favourite assessment as it has been standardised internationally and cross-culturally on more than 100,000 subjects!! This makes it a gold standard assessment to use across all age groups. It can be used with children from 2 years to o

Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual Motor Integration, (Beery VMI) provides the occupational therapist with information on the development of an individual’s visual and motor abilities or hand / eye coordination. These skills are the foundations for many of your child’s everyday activities. The test has three sections: how efficiently the visual and motor are integrated or talking to each other Visual perceptual skills (more about this in future blog). Motor control

The REAL™ (The Roll Evaluation of Activities of Life) is a helpful screening tool to assess your child’s ability to care for themselves at home, at school and in the community. It is a standardised assessment for children aged 2 - 18 years. It requires the main care given to fill out a comprehensive assessment questionnaire, rating your child’s perform in activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) This assessment is helpful when comple

Movement ABC-2 This assessment helps to identify children who have motor function impairment such as dyspraxia. The assessment is for children ages 3-16 and is spilt into 3 age categories each containing 8 motor tasks. This tasks assess fine motor, ball skills and balance. The Movement ABC 2 is standardised in the UK and has excellent reliability and validity data making it the gold standard standardised assessment for dyspraxia. The Movement ABC 2 can be used to help to unde