Griffiths mental development scales | |
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Subscale | Description of abilities assessed |
Locomotor | Balance and stability–jumping over hurdles, balancing on one leg, skipping and running |
Personal-social | Self-care including dressing, washing, tying shoe laces and being able to provide full name and address |
Hearing and language | Receptive and expressive language is assessed Naming objects and describing their use Children are required to freely talk about a large/busy picture where vocabulary, sentence structure, pronouns and descriptive words are assessed Auditory short-term recall with repetition Naming colors, similarities opposites and descriptive |
Eye and hand Co-ordination | Free drawing of a person and a house. Copying geometric shapes Writing name and copying letters Cutting and folding paper and threading beads |
Performance | Visuo-spatial skills including speed and precision Completing form boards and block patterns which are timed |
Practical reasoning | Closest to arithmetical reasoning: counting blocks, knowing days of the week, high/low, long/short, heavy/light, middle and concept of speed. Short term memory of items shown Arranging sequences of cards to tell a story |
General Griffiths Quotient: | Average of the 6 subtests above |
Beery-Buktenica test of visual motor integration | |
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 Beery VMI | Child is required to copy various geometric forms and draw them below the example figure |
 Beery motor Co-ordination | Draw the same geometric forms by joining dots and keeping within the guidelines. Draw as many as can within a time limit |
 Beery visual perception | Identify shape out of a few that matches the example. Do as many as can within a time limit |