Additional Measures

Bourke-Taylor, H.M., Law, M., Howie, L., & Pallant, J.F.

The APS is a brief, psychometrically sound instrument that measures the assistance that a school-aged child with a disability requires to participate in play and leisure activities at home or in the community, from the primary caregiver's perspective. The APS may be used as an outcome measure and to evaluate and predict the amount and type of additional assistance families need to facilitate their child’s participation in an important aspect of the child’s daily life and development: play and recreation.

Articles:

Bourke-Taylor, H. M., Law, M., Howie, L., & Pallant, J. F. (2009). Development of the Assistance to Participate Scale (APS) for children's play and leisure activities. Child: Care, Health and Development, 35(5), 738-745.

Bourke-Taylor, H. M., Howie, L., & Law, M. (2010). Impact of caring for a school aged child with a disability: Understanding mothers' perspectives. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 57(2), 127-136.

Bourke-Taylor, H. M., & Pallant, J. F. (2013) The Assistance to Participate Scale to measure play and leisure support for children with developmental disability: Update following rasch analysis. Child: Care, Health and Development, In Press.

Bourke-Taylor, H.M., Law, M., Howie, L., & Pallant, J.F.

The CCBS is a brief, psychometrically sound instrument that measures a mother’s perspective of the challenging behaviours presented by her child with a disability. The 9-item CCBS can assist identifying the mother-child dyads who may be in need of more support and interventions.

Articles:

Bourke-Taylor, H. M., Howie, L., & Law, M. (2010). Impact of caring for a school aged child with a disability: Understanding mothers' perspectives. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 57(2), 127-136.

Bourke-Taylor, H. M., Law, M., Howie, L., & Pallant, J. F. (2010). Development of the Child's Challenging Behaviour Scale (CCBS) for mothers of school aged children with disabilities. Child: Care, Health and Development, 36(4), 491-498.

Bourke-Taylor, H. M., Pallant, J. F., & Law M. (2013). Update on the Child’s Challenging Behaviour Scale following evaluation using rasch analysis. Child: Care, Health and Development, In press

The Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) is a measurement tool that assists therapists in using a client-centred approach to service delivery by indicating the client’s priorities. It thus enables therapy to be individualized and targeted to the areas of greatest need and offers an effective system of measuring the outcomes of therapy.

For more information about the COPM, visit www.thecopm.ca

Doreen Bartlett and Jamie Kneale Fanning

The Daily Activities of Infants Scale (DAIS) is designed to measure the variation in opportunities that parents provide their infants in terms of the development of antigravity postural control and movement exploration over a 24-hour period, through their daily activities. Psychometric testing has been completed on the DAIS and it has been found to be a reliable and valid parent-completed measure.

Bartlett, D.J., Fanning, J.K., Miller, L., Conti-Becker, A., & Doralp, S. (2008). Development of the Daily Activities of Infants Scale: A measure supporting early motor development. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 50(8):613-617.

Bourke-Taylor, H.M., Law, M., Howie, L, & Pallant, J. F.

The Health Promoting Activities Scale (HPAS) is a brief, psychometrically sound instrument that is clinically relevant and appropriate for research. The HPAS measures the person’s estimation of the frequency with which they participate in self-selected leisure occupations that promote or maintain health and well-being. The HPAS was developed for mothers of children with disabilities. The HPAS allows professionals to evaluate clients’ participation in leisure occupations that are associated with subjective health, particularly mental health.

Articles:

Bourke-Taylor, H. M., Howie, L., & Law, M. (2010). Impact of caring for a school aged child with a disability: Understanding mothers’ perspectives. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 57(2), 127-136.

Bourke-Taylor, B., Law, M., Howie, L., & Pallant, J. F. (2012). Initial development of the Health Promoting Activities Scale to measure the leisure participation of mothers of children with disabilities. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 66, e1-e10. doi: 10.5014/ajot.2012.000521

The SAROMM is a measure of posture and flexibility. Reliability and validity testing conducted for children with cerebral palsy is reported in Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology.

The SAROMM manual can be accessed here:

• Manual (link to Greek translation)
• Summary Form (link to Greek translation)

Articles:

Bartlett, D., & Purdie, B. (2005). Testing of the spinal alignment and range of motion measure: A discriminative measure of posture and flexibility for children with cerebral palsy. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 47(11), 739-743.

Wright, M, & Bartlett DJ. (2010). Distribution of contractures and spinal malalignments in adolescents with cerebral palsy: Observations and influences of function, gender and age. Dev Neurorehabil. 13(1), 46-52.