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Assessment Overview

Our Occupational Therapy Assessment provides a comprehensive look at your child’s development, with a strong focus on understanding their unique strengths and challenges across key areas of functioning. This assessment is designed to support families seeking clarity around their child’s sensory needs, developmental progress, and everyday functioning.​

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Areas Commonly Assessed:

We take a holistic approach to evaluation, exploring a range of areas that impact your child’s daily life, including:

  • Sensory Processing – how your child experiences, interprets, and responds to sensory information

  • Fine and Gross Motor Skills – coordination, strength, balance, and control needed for play, school, and self-care

  • Play Skills – how your child interacts, explores, and engages in purposeful and imaginative play

  • Social-Emotional Development – regulation, emotional expression, coping, and interaction with peers and adults

  • Daily Living Skills – routines such as dressing, feeding, toileting, and hygiene

  • Handwriting and Pre-Writing Skills – pencil grasp, letter formation, visual-motor integration

  • Attention and Focus – sustained attention, task initiation, and impulse control

  • Behavioral Observations – how your child’s behaviors may relate to underlying sensory or developmental needs

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What’s Included:

Your assessment includes a comprehensive written report, which features:

  • A review of your child’s developmental and family background

  • Standardized and observational assessment findings

  • Professional insights and interpretations

  • Personalized recommendations and next steps to help guide you at home, in school, or with other providers

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This report can be a valuable tool to help support diagnostic processes (such as when working with a pediatrician or psychologist), inform school planning, or guide therapy services. However, please note that this assessment does not provide a diagnosis on its own.

 

Please note: Not every tool will be used in every evaluation. The selected assessments will depend on your child’s age, developmental stage, and the concerns you share during our intake process.​​

Step 1:
Fill Out Online Forms

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Step 2:
Telehealth Parent interview and Observe Child 

Step 3:
Receive Comprehensive Report

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Sensory Processing Measure 2nd Edition (SPM-2)

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 like home, school, and the community.

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This tool can be used with individuals from 4 months to 87 years old, making it helpful across the lifespan. It’s especially useful 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 looks at:

  • Sensory processing across different systems (touch, movement, vision, hearing, etc.)

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

  • Social participation – how sensory differences may impact interaction and engagement

 

By gaining insight into how sensory experiences influence your child’s behavior, regulation, and participation, the SPM-2 helps guide tailored support strategies.

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Little Developmental Coordination Disorder Questionnaire Canadian (LITTLE DCDQ) 

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 affects 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 their age, 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, helping to determine whether further assessment or support may be beneficial.

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Developmental Coordination Disorder Questionnaire 2007 (DSDQ’07)

The DSDQ-07 is a caregiver-completed checklist designed to identify developmental and sensory processing concerns in young children. It offers a quick but insightful look into areas such as:

  • Sensory processing and regulation

  • Motor skills (both fine and gross)

  • Language and communication

  • Social-emotional development

  • Daily routines and behavior patterns

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

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Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory Computer Adaptive Test (PEDI-CAT)

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 like eating, dressing, and hygiene

  • Mobility (including crawling, walking, and transferring)

  • Social and cognitive skills related to communication and interaction

  • Responsibility, or how much your child takes on tasks independently

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The PEDI-CAT adapts its questions based on previous answers, allowing for a customized and efficient assessment. It’s especially helpful in tracking progress over time and setting realistic, functional goals.

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Developmental Assessment of Young Children 2nd Edition (DAYC-2)

The Developmental Assessment of Young Children-Second Edition (DAYC-2) is an assessment measuring early childhood development in the following domains: cognition, communication, social-emotional development, physical development, and adaptive behavior for children from birth through age 5 years 11 months.

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The DAYC-2 is a standardized assessment used with children from birth to 5 years, 11 months. It evaluates five key developmental areas through observation, caregiver interview, and direct interaction:​​

  • Cognition – problem solving, attention, and early learning

  • Communication – both 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 where a child is thriving or may need extra support.

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The Print Tool 

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

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Even though The Print Tool® is designed primarily for younger children learning to print, an this assessment may still be used with older students in 4th or 5th grade under certain circumstances. Some children develop handwriting skills at a slower pace or have specific difficulties that affect their writing legibility and fluency, regardless of their age or grade level.
 

The writing components looked at include: 

  • Letter memory

  • Letter formation

  • Size and spacing

  • Letter orientation and placement

 

This tool helps identify the underlying skills your child may need to develop to improve handwriting—such as fine motor coordination, visual-motor integration, or pencil grip—and guides individualized recommendations to support progress at home or school.

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