ASSESSMENT TOOL FOR CHILDREN SPECIAL NEEDS

Assessments are very Important for children with special needs. Through assessment we can identify a special child's severity level, diagnosis, IQ level and about each ones behavior. Assessments are done by these professionals they are as follows

1. Psychologist
2. Pediatrician
3. Psychiatrist 
4. Special educators
5. Doctors

Now we can see about the tools used for the assessment of children with special needs. 

• MDPS ( Madras developmental program system) 
• Basic MR ( Basic assessment scale for indian children with Mental retardation) 
• FACP ( Functional assessment checklist program) 
• Upanyan checklist 
• NIMH - VAPS ( NIMH Vocational assessment and programming system for persons with mental retardation) 
• Generic skills assessment checklist( work readiness skills - prerequisite skills for vocational training) 
• Vineland social maturity scale 
• Job analysis format ( individualised vocational curriculum and evaluation procedure) 
• ISAA - Indian scale for identification of autism 
• INCLEN -  diagnostic tool for children with autism spectrum disorder 
• ABAK - Adaptive behavioural assessment kit 

These are all the assessment tools used for children with special needs. These all tools is designed to provide information about the functional skills of the persons with special needs and for the purpose to plan individualised education plan ( IEP) . All the assessments can be proceed only after the observation and measurement. I hope that everyone got the clear understanding about the assessment tools for the children with special needs. 

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