Diagrams and pictorial representations are common in children’s lives and require abstraction away from visual perception. In three experiments, we investigated 4to 8-year-olds’ comprehension of such representations. In Experiment 1 (N = 80), children were shown photographs of geometric objects and asked to choose the corresponding line drawing from among sets of four, or vice versa. Results sh...

PURPOSE The aim of this paper is to examine conceptual issues that challenge development of valid and useful measures of children's participation. METHOD Ambiguities in the current definition of participation in the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) are examined along with their implications for developing valid measures for children and youth. RESULTS...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to obtain data about typical children on the 99-item Sensory Profile, a newly developed tool derived from sensory history items reported in the literature and designed to assess children's responses to commonly occurring sensory events. METHOD Parents of 64 typical children 3 to 10 years of age completed the Sensory Profile; parents used a five-point L...

OBJECTIVE To investigate cross-cultural validity of a newly developed Assessment of Children's Hand Skills (ACHS) in children with and without disabilities. SUBJECTS One group of 138 Australian children and 134 Taiwanese children, age range 2-12 years (a total of 149 typically developing children and 123 children with disabilities). METHODS Rasch model analysis was used to evaluate rating s...