Assessment Overview

The SPM-2 is a standardized rating scale grounded in Ayres Sensory Integration® theory. It helps assess how sensory processing affects a person’s ability to function in everyday environments, including home, school, and the community.

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This tool can be used with individuals from 4 months to 87 years, making it useful across the lifespan. It’s especially effective in identifying patterns of sensory integration and processing challenges that may impact learning, behavior, emotions, and daily life.

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The SPM-2 gathers input from parents, caregivers, or teachers and evaluates:

• Sensory Processing – how your child experiences and responds to sensory input (touch, movement, vision, hearing, etc.)

• Praxis – the ability to plan and carry out movements or tasks

• Social Participation – how sensory differences may affect interaction and engagement with others

By providing insight into how sensory experiences influence your child’s behavior, regulation, and participation, the SPM-2 helps guide tailored strategies for home, school, and daily routines.

The Little DCDQ is a parent-report questionnaire designed to identify young children (ages 3 to 5 years) who may be at risk for Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)—a condition that can affect a child’s ability to learn and perform everyday motor tasks.

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This tool gathers insight into how your child’s gross and fine motor skills compare to peers, based on real-life activities. It focuses on tasks such as:

• Using utensils during meals

• Climbing stairs or navigating playground equipment

• Running, jumping, or catching a ball

• Managing buttons or zippers

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While the Little DCDQ does not provide a diagnosis, it can highlight motor coordination concerns early on and help determine whether further assessment or support may be beneficial.

The DSDQ-07 is a caregiver-completed checklist designed to identify developmental and sensory processing concerns in young children. It provides a quick but insightful look at key areas, including:

• Sensory processing and regulation

• Motor skills (fine and gross)

• Language and communication

• Social-emotional development

• Daily routines and behavior patterns

This tool is especially useful for early identification of children who may benefit from occupational therapy or additional developmental support. It helps create a broader picture of your child’s functioning at home and in other familiar environments.

The PEDI-CAT is a comprehensive tool used to evaluate a child’s ability to perform everyday tasks across a variety of real-life situations. Appropriate for children and youth from birth through age 20, it assesses:

• Daily activities such as eating, dressing, and hygiene

• Mobility including crawling, walking, and transferring

• Social and cognitive skills related to communication and interaction

• Responsibility, or how independently your child completes tasks

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The PEDI-CAT adapts its questions based on prior answers, providing a customized and efficient assessment. It is especially helpful for tracking progress over time and setting realistic, functional goals.

The DAYC-2 measures early childhood development across cognition, communication, social-emotional development, physical development, and adaptive behavior for children from birth through 5 years, 11 months.

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Assessment is conducted through observation, caregiver interview, and direct interaction, evaluating:

• Cognition – problem solving, attention, and early learning

• Communication – understanding and using language

• Social-emotional development – interactions and emotional regulation

• Physical development – gross and fine motor abilities

• Adaptive behavior – everyday functional tasks such as dressing and feeding

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The DAYC-2 is often used to support early intervention eligibility or to better understand areas where a child may need additional support.

The Print Tool® is designed for children aged 5 to 8 years (kindergarten through 2nd or 3rd grade) who are developing foundational printing skills. It focuses on letter formation and basic handwriting components during early learning.

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This assessment may also be used with older students in 4th or 5th grade if handwriting development is delayed or if specific challenges affect writing legibility and fluency. The tool evaluates key writing components, including:

• Letter memory

• Letter formation

• Size and spacing

• Letter orientation and placement

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By identifying underlying skills that need development—such as fine motor coordination, visual-motor integration, or pencil grip—the Print Tool® guides individualized recommendations to support handwriting progress at home or at school.