Quote about children

A quote about children

Working with children may not make you rich financially, but it has enormous benefits to your soul-Chinese Fortune

I received this while dining at Chinamen's Buffet in Colonial Heights, Virginia in January of 2007

Testing for Intelligence

As a Head Start employee, I believe 100% in testing a child holistically. I also believe that we have to develop holistically as well. I think we need to have as much knowledge about a child's emotional health as well as cognitive abilities. When we talked about stressors for children previously, that gave us examples right there of the many things that can affect a child's cognitive abilities. We as adults must think about when we are going through some type of stress, are we really able to focus? Are we thinking about what particular thing is bothering us or concentrating on the workshop we are in or a training that we are sitting in? Kids have that same problem. It's hard to focus if you're thinking about the fact that last night the police burst into your home and took your mom to jail. Therefore, I think emotional assessments are very necessary. I looked into assessments in Australia and found that Primary school is for children ages 5-12 and children are assessed beginning at age 7 with a NAPLAN test. I also found a program called Reach for the Stars that does assessment of children for the schools. The tests Reach for the Stars will perform are: Sensory, Developmental, Social Emotional, Motor, Participation Assessments, and Adaptive behavior/cognition assessments. Most of these are self explanatory, but I wondered about the participation assessment so I dug deeper and found this is a school function assessment that evaluates and monitors a students performance of functional tasks and activities at school. The adaptive behavior assessments is a test that assesses disorders of planning, organization and problem solving. This test is assessed beginning at age 16. I hope that I never have to take that test. I will flunk out for sure! I am so unorganized!

www.psychcorp.com.au/otguide
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_school#Australia