For children who struggle with manipulation of tools for example scissors, threading, often have weak hand muscles which impact on their function in particular their  pencil grip.

Assessment:

Non-standardised assessment of hand skills

Why:

Delayed hand skill development will impact on many aspects of function especially handwriting and use of utensils.

Pre-writing assessment - 

For children who struggle to formulate letters, and display poor posture and pencil grip we can offer the most suitable assessment for a child from our range:

Assessment:

• Visual Motor Integration  Test

For young children the VMI enables us to identify their exact developmental level with copying skills.

Why:

The VMI is vital pre writing measure to enable us to target basic skills to promote letter formation at a later date.

Pre-writing -

For young children who struggle to master the basic strokes of letter formation

Assessment:

• Shore developmental pre writing assessment
• VMI

Why:

Establish the child’s developmental writing level of the child, to target the areas of need for successful handwriting skills.