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MMDST Guide: When Giving 9, 11, and 12, Do Not Name The Forms. Do Not Demonstrate 9 and 11

The document provides directions for administering a developmental test for children. It lists 28 tasks that assess skills like following objects with their eyes, picking up objects, naming images, following simple commands, locomotor skills, and basic cognitive questions. Most items require the child to pass 2 out of 3 trials or tasks to receive credit. The test assesses a range of developmental milestones without touching the child.

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MMDST Guide: When Giving 9, 11, and 12, Do Not Name The Forms. Do Not Demonstrate 9 and 11

The document provides directions for administering a developmental test for children. It lists 28 tasks that assess skills like following objects with their eyes, picking up objects, naming images, following simple commands, locomotor skills, and basic cognitive questions. Most items require the child to pass 2 out of 3 trials or tasks to receive credit. The test assesses a range of developmental milestones without touching the child.

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MMDST GUIDE

TEST DIRECTIONS

1. Try to get the child to smile by smiling, talking or waving to him. Do not touch him.
2. When the child is playing with toy, pull it away from him. Pass if he resist.
3. Child does not have to be able to tie shoes or button in the back
4. Move yarn slowly in an arch from one side to the other, about 6” above child’s face. Pass if the eyes
follow 90 degrees to midline. (past midline; 180 degrees)

5. Pass if the child grasps rattle when it is touched to the backs or tips of fingers.

6. Pass if the child continues to look where yarn disappeared or tries to see where it went. Yarn should
be dropped quickly from sight from tester’s hand without arm movement.

7. Pass if the child picks up cheese curl with any part of the thumb and finger

8. Pass if child picks up cheese curl with the ends of thumb and index finger using an over hand
approach.

9. Pass any enclose form. Fail continuous round motion. (Draw Circle)

10. Which line is longer (not bigger). Turn the paper upside down an repeat (3/3 or 5/6)

11. Pass any cross line.

12. Have child copy first. If Failed, demonstrate.

Note:

 When giving 9, 11, and 12, do not name the forms.

 Do not demonstrate 9 and 11.

13. When scoring, each pair (2 arms, 2 legs, etc) counts as one part

14. Point to picture and have the child name it. (No credit is given for sounds only)

15. Test the child to:


 Give block to mommy;

 Put block on table;

 Put block on floor.

 Pass 2 of 3. (Do not help child by pointing, moving head or eyes.)

16. Ask child: What do you do when you are Cold? Hungry? Tired? Pass 2 of 3.

17. Tell child to: Put block on table; under table; in front of chair, behind chair. Pass 3 of 4. (Do not help child by
pointing, moving head or eyes.)

18. Ask child:

 - If fire is hot, ice is?

 Mother is a woman, Dad is a?

 A horse is big, a mouse is?

 *Pass 2 of 3.

19. Ask child: What is a:

 ball?

 River?

 Desk?

 House?

 Banana?

 Curtain?

 Roof?

 Fence?

 Street?
 Pass if defined in terms of use, shape, what is it made of or its general category (Such as banana is a
fruit, not just yellow)

 Pass 6 of 9.

20. Ask child:

 What is a spoon made of?

 A shoe made of?

 A door made of?

 (no other objects can be substituted.)

 *Passed 3 of 3.

21. When placed on stomach, child lifts chest off table with support of forearms and/or hands.

22. While child is on back, grasp his hands and pull him to sitting. Pass if head does not hang back

23. Child may use wall or rail only, not person. May not crawl.

24. Child must throw ball overhead 3 feet to within arm’s reach of tester.

25. Child must perform standing broad jumps over width of test sheet (8 ½ inches)

26. Tell child to walk forward, heel within 1 inch of toe. Tester may demonstrate.

 Tester may demonstrate.

 Child must walk 4 consecutive steps, 2 out of 3 trials.

27. Bounces ball to child who should stand 3 feet away from tester. Child must catch ball with hands, not arms, 2
out of 3 trials.

28. Tell child to walk backward toe within 1 inch of heel. Tester may demonstrate. Child must walk 4
consecutive steps, 2 out of 3 trials.

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