Teaching · Special Education

Motor scores, read against the school day.

Enter the scores with their domain and mark the motor tasks of the school day. The summary puts each score on the curve, lists what needs support and shows where a test and the classroom tell different stories.

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The results organizer

One record per student and evaluation. The example scores are made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Special Education$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
Scores by motor domain with distance from the mean, the school tasks that need support, the places where scores and function disagree, and notes on grasp and posture.
Who it is for
School occupational and physical therapists reporting motor evaluations, and the special education teams reading them.
Format
Browser organizer. One saved record per student and evaluation; printed with its summary or as a blank form; CSV of the score rows; export and import a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Special Education toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Special Education space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
small movementswhole body
Drawn for this page. Fine and gross motor skills show up in different parts of the school day, from copying a sentence to the stairs at dismissal.

How to use it

  1. Start a record with a code or initials and the evaluation date.
  2. Enter each composite or subtest with its domain.
  3. Watch the student across a school day and mark each motor task.
  4. Note grasp and seated posture, and anything that changes with fatigue.
  5. Bring the disagreements to the team as questions.

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Reading motor results

Why the school day matters

School-based therapy looks at what the student needs to take part in their education. A low score with no effect on the school day, or a typical score with real trouble in class, both change what the team does next.

What it is not

It applies no cutoff and does not decide eligibility, services or minutes. Those come from the team, using the full evaluation.

Reading the percentile

The organizer turns each score into its distance from the mean and an approximate normal-curve percentile. The test’s own tables are the ones to report.

Sources

  1. American Occupational Therapy Association. Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process (4th ed.), 2020.
  2. American Physical Therapy Association, Academy of Pediatric Physical Therapy. Fact sheets on physical therapy in schools, 2019 onward.
  3. Case-Smith, J., and O’Brien, J. C. (Eds.). Occupational Therapy for Children and Adolescents (7th ed.). Elsevier, 2015: chapters on school-based practice and handwriting.
  4. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act regulations, 34 CFR 300.304(c)(4): assessment of motor abilities where related to the suspected disability.

The example student and every score are made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.