Motor Development Assessment in Childhood

Milićević, Milena and Potić, Srećko (2016) Motor Development Assessment in Childhood. In: Early intervention in special education and rehabilitation: thematic collection of international importance. Faculty of Special Education and Rehabilitation, Publishing Center of the Faculty, Belgrade, pp. 277-293. ISBN 978-86-6203-086-3

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Abstract

Motor development is the most intense during the childhood period, and consequently, it requires the most of the attention and adequate monitoring. One of the reasons is the fact that each motor dysfunction has consequences on other developmental domains, and therefore, compromises overall psychomotor development. The aim of this paper is to, by examining the available literature extensively, allocate and present specific, widely used instruments of children’s motor development assessment during the childhood period, created in order to identify developmental motor dysfunctions and disorders and designed to evaluate motor development itself. A literature review was conducted by searching electronic databases EBSCO, Science Direct, and Scopus. The references of identified studies were hand-searched for additional articles. For the purposes of this paper, five assessment tools were presented. These instruments were selected on the basis of the frequency of their use in research work and on the basis of availability of comprehensive and relevant information. In addition to the description of the structure and characteristics of instruments, for each of them, strengths are listed and limitations noted. It can be concluded that in order to get an adequate insight into the motor abilities and motor development in general, it is advisable to use more than one instrument of assessment. A comprehensive insight into all motor substructures is important from the aspect of the treatment of deficient or impaired motor functions and in terms of the determination of a child’s motor potentials.

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