Which instrument provides caregiver-reported information on a child’s functional capabilities across self-care, mobility, and social function with age-appropriate norms?

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Which instrument provides caregiver-reported information on a child’s functional capabilities across self-care, mobility, and social function with age-appropriate norms?

This item is about identifying the tool that captures caregiver observations of a child’s everyday functional abilities in three specific areas—self-care, mobility, and social function—and compares them to age-appropriate norms. The Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory is designed exactly for this: caregivers complete or report on the child’s functional skills across those three domains, and the results are interpreted against normative data for the child’s age. It also provides a way to rate how much help the child needs, which aids planning and tracking progress over time. Other measures may involve caregiver input or assess adaptive behavior, but they don’t map to those three domains in the same focused way or rely on caregiver report with age-based normative data for self-care, mobility, and social function. Direct-performance tests like the Bayley or GMFM involve clinician administration or observation of specific tasks rather than caregiver-reported daily functional capabilities across these domains.

This item is about identifying the tool that captures caregiver observations of a child’s everyday functional abilities in three specific areas—self-care, mobility, and social function—and compares them to age-appropriate norms. The Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory is designed exactly for this: caregivers complete or report on the child’s functional skills across those three domains, and the results are interpreted against normative data for the child’s age. It also provides a way to rate how much help the child needs, which aids planning and tracking progress over time.

Other measures may involve caregiver input or assess adaptive behavior, but they don’t map to those three domains in the same focused way or rely on caregiver report with age-based normative data for self-care, mobility, and social function. Direct-performance tests like the Bayley or GMFM involve clinician administration or observation of specific tasks rather than caregiver-reported daily functional capabilities across these domains.

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