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Assessment & diagnosis
Should My Child Have a CDI Assessment?
The MacArthur–Bates CDI is a parent-completed checklist of the words, gestures and early sentences your child understands and uses, usually for ages 8–30 months. It is gentle, non-invasive and based on what you see at home, taking 20–40 minutes. Whether your child should have one depends on your concerns and age — a Pinnacle clinician can confirm if it's the right fit and combines it with a clinician-administered assessment, never a label.
Read the answer AnswerShould My Child Have a CELF-5 Assessment?
The CELF-5 is a structured, clinician-administered language assessment for children roughly 5–21 years, used to understand how a child listens to, understands and uses spoken language. Whether your child needs one is decided with a speech-language pathologist, based on what you and teachers notice. It is one careful tool, never a standalone label, and at Pinnacle it sits within a clinician-administered AbilityScore® assessment.
Read the answer AnswerShould My Child Have a CELF-P2 Assessment?
The CELF-P2 is a clinician-administered language assessment for children aged about 3 to 6, mapping how well your child understands and uses language through gentle, play-based, picture activities. It's worth considering if your child seems to understand less than peers, struggles with sentences or instructions, or is often hard to understand. It is never a label — only a Pinnacle clinician confirms what results mean.
Read the answer AnswerShould My Child Have a CONNERS-3 Assessment?
The CONNERS-3 is a questionnaire-based tool that helps clinicians understand attention, hyperactivity and behaviour in children aged about 6–18, using parent, teacher and self-report forms. It's usually considered when difficulties show up across more than one setting and affect daily life. It is one input within a wider clinical assessment — never a stand-alone diagnosis, which is formed only at a Pinnacle Blooms Network centre under qualified clinician care.
Read the answer AnswerShould my child have a DAYC-2 assessment, and what does it involve?
The DAYC-2 is a gentle, clinician-administered assessment for children from birth to about 5 years 11 months, looking at communication, cognition, motor skills, social-emotional development, and everyday adaptive skills. It uses observation, play-based activities, and a parent interview to map your child's strengths and areas needing support. Whether it suits your child is best decided with a clinician — it is one helpful tool, never a label.
Read the answer AnswerShould My Child Have a Denver II Assessment, and What Does It Involve?
The Denver II is a quick developmental screen — not a diagnosis — that checks personal-social, fine motor, language and gross motor skills in about 15–25 minutes. It's a reasonable first look if you or your doctor have questions about your child's development, with the choice best made alongside a clinician. Any flagged area leads to a fuller clinician-led assessment, never a label.
Read the answer AnswerShould My Child Have a DP-3 Assessment, and What Does It Involve?
The Developmental Profile 3 (DP-3) is a structured questionnaire that maps a child's development across physical, adaptive, social-emotional, cognitive and communication areas from birth to about 12 years. It draws on parent knowledge plus clinician input, takes around 20–40 minutes, and gives an organised profile. It is a screening and progress tool, never a stand-alone diagnosis — only a Pinnacle clinician can confirm what the findings mean.
Read the answer AnswerShould my child have a DP-4 assessment, and what does it involve?
The DP-4 is a structured, clinician-guided assessment that profiles your child across five areas — physical, adaptive, social-emotional, cognitive and communication. It's a good fit when you want a broad whole-child snapshot rather than a single-skill check. Whether it suits your child is best decided with a Pinnacle clinician, who matches the right tool to your child's age and your concerns. It is never a label.
Read the answer AnswerShould My Child Have an FES Assessment?
The Family Environment Scale (FES) is a parent questionnaire that maps your home's emotional climate — warmth, communication, conflict and routine — to give clinicians context for a therapy plan. It doesn't test or diagnose your child; whether it's used is a clinician's decision alongside your child's developmental assessment, and any AbilityScore® or diagnosis is formed only at a Pinnacle centre under qualified care.
Read the answer AnswerShould my child have a GARS-3 assessment, and what does it involve?
The GARS-3 is a structured rating scale, completed by parents or teachers and interpreted by a clinician, that organises observations of autism-related behaviours. It is a screening and information-gathering tool, not a standalone diagnosis, and is best used as one part of a fuller clinician-administered assessment. Whether your child needs one is a decision to make with a qualified clinician.
Read the answer AnswerShould my child have a GMFM assessment, and what does it involve?
The GMFM is a gentle, clinician-administered measure of big-body movement — rolling, sitting, crawling, standing and walking — used most often for children with motor conditions like cerebral palsy. It maps current ability and tracks progress over time against your child's own baseline. Whether your child should have one is a clinical decision made with your physiotherapist; it is a measure of movement skill, never a diagnosis.
Read the answer AnswerShould My Child Have a Griffiths III Assessment, and What Does It Involve?
The Griffiths III is an internationally used, play-based developmental assessment that maps a child's profile across five areas — foundations of learning, language, coordination, personal-social-emotional and gross motor skills. It is gentle and observational rather than test-like, and produces a strengths-and-support picture, not a diagnosis on its own. Whether your child needs one is best decided with a developmental clinician, who may use it alongside a clinician-administered AbilityScore®.
Read the answer AnswerShould my child have an IPRS assessment, and what does it involve?
An IPRS assessment can help when you have questions about how your child communicates, relates or copes — but a qualified clinician should decide whether it fits, using it within a wider developmental review rather than as a stand-alone label. It draws on your observations, gentle structured tasks and clinical judgement to set a baseline you can re-measure. Any AbilityScore® or diagnosis is formed only at a Pinnacle centre under clinician care.
Read the answer AnswerShould My Child Have an ISAA Assessment?
The ISAA is a structured, clinician-administered scale used in India to assess the presence and degree of autism, usually from about age 3, and is often the basis for disability certification. Whether your child should have one depends on the concerns observed — the right first step is a general developmental check, after which a qualified clinician decides if the ISAA is appropriate. It is one part of a fuller picture, never a single number, and any diagnosis is formed only at a Pinnacle centre under qualified clinician care.
Read the answer AnswerShould my child have an M-CHAT-R/F assessment, and what does it involve?
The M-CHAT-R/F is a short, free, parent-completed screening questionnaire for toddlers aged about 16–30 months. It involves 20 yes/no questions plus a brief follow-up interview to clarify flagged answers. It is a screen, not a diagnosis — it indicates whether a fuller developmental assessment may help. It is a sensible step around the 18- and 24-month checks or whenever you have a specific concern.
Read the answer AnswerShould my child have an M-FUN assessment, and what does it involve?
The M-FUN is a play-based assessment for children about 2.5 to 7 years that examines how fine motor, gross motor and visual-motor skills work in everyday tasks, plus how a child participates at home and in the classroom. Consider it if you've noticed difficulties with hand skills, coordination or keeping up in play. It is one clinician-administered tool, not a diagnosis, and the right starting point is a general developmental check at a Pinnacle centre.
Read the answer AnswerShould my child have an MSEL assessment?
The Mullen Scales of Early Learning (MSEL) is a play-based assessment for children from birth to about 68 months, mapping five areas — gross motor, fine motor, visual reception, and receptive and expressive language. It gives a detailed developmental profile rather than a single score, and is useful for establishing a baseline or answering questions about early development. It is a clinician-administered structured assessment, never a stand-alone diagnosis.
Read the answer AnswerShould my child have a NEPSY-II assessment, and what does it involve?
The NEPSY-II is a clinician-administered neuropsychological battery for children aged about 3–16, profiling how they think across attention, memory, language, motor, social perception and visuospatial skills. Whether your child needs one is a clinical decision tied to specific questions, not a general screen. At Pinnacle, a clinician decides if it adds value and folds findings into a re-measurable plan; any AbilityScore® or diagnosis is formed only at a centre.
Read the answer AnswerShould My Child Have a PDMS-2 Assessment, and What Does It Involve?
The PDMS-2 is a play-based motor assessment for children from birth to about 5 years, examining both gross and fine motor skills over roughly 45–60 minutes. It's worth considering if your child is slow to reach movement milestones, seems clumsy or stiff, or has been flagged at a routine check. It is not a diagnosis — only a Pinnacle clinician decides whether it's the right step and what the results mean.
Read the answer AnswerShould my child have a PEDI assessment, and what does it involve?
The PEDI is a clinician-administered assessment of a child's everyday functional skills — self-care, mobility and social function — capturing both what your child can do and how much help they need, not intelligence or a diagnosis. It is most useful for setting a clear baseline and tracking progress over time. Whether it suits your child is decided with your Pinnacle clinician, and any diagnosis is formed only at a centre under qualified care.
Read the answer AnswerPLS-5 Assessment: Should Your Child Have One?
The PLS-5 is a gentle, play-based assessment of how well a child understands and uses language, from birth to around 7 years. Consider it if your child is slow to talk, hard to understand, or struggles to follow instructions. It is not pass-or-fail — it guides the right support and is always interpreted by a qualified speech-language therapist.
Read the answer AnswerShould my child have a PPVT-5 assessment, and what does it involve?
The PPVT-5 is a short, friendly picture-pointing test of how many spoken words your child understands. It involves no reading, writing or talking — your child simply points to the matching picture. It measures receptive vocabulary only, so it is a useful piece of a bigger language picture but never a diagnosis on its own. A Pinnacle clinician decides whether it fits your child and combines it with a fuller assessment.
Read the answer AnswerShould my child have a PSI assessment, and what does it involve?
The Parenting Stress Index (PSI-4) is a questionnaire completed by you, the parent — not a test of your child. It takes about 20–30 minutes and gently maps where parenting feels hardest, across your own strain and the daily demands of caring for your child. A clinician may suggest it alongside your child's developmental review to make sure support reaches the whole family, and it is always interpreted professionally, never used to judge you.
Read the answer AnswerShould my child have an SBIS assessment, and what does it involve?
The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales (SBIS) is a clinician-administered assessment of a child's reasoning and problem-solving. It can help when there are questions about learning, delay, giftedness or school planning, but isn't needed by every child. Whether it suits your child is best decided with a qualified clinician who understands your concerns — it is one tool, never a label.
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