Griffiths Scale - anyone had experience of this assessment?

[DebsCee]

My DS aged 13 months is being seen by a developmental paed on Thursday morning because he has gross motor delays. We are already working with a physio for this but we have been told that we need an overall assessment to check for GDD or similar problems, typically CP.

I know that the paed will be using the Griffiths Scale to assess him but I can't find out anything about the exercises/tests they actually do in each part of the assessment. I'm not even sure what a 'regular' 13 month old should be capable of as all of DS' peers seem so very different

Has anyone experience of the Griffiths Scale assessment and can you tell me what to expect, especially regards the fine motor/coordination part?

Thank you

hang on let me think, my kids were given this test. If I remember correctly, it was puzzles, timed and untimed, emmmm..... pictures where they are asked to point out items, make a train with blocks, tower with blocks, I'll have to dig out the reports, I really can't remember much.

my kids were a bit older tho.

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Phew - I couldn't see DS making a train, so thank goodness for that! I know that the test covers 0 - 2 years so it's difficult to find out what he wil be assessed on IYKWIM.

Thanks for the speedy reply.

There is a range of stuff and they keep going till they get to something they can't do in that area. DH is trained in this and I can remember him doing it on DS1 when he first did the course, I seem to remember he was ahead of his chronological age in some areas and bejind in others, as you'd expect I suppose.

My dd2 had the Griffiths assessment at 19 months. I have dug out the report - I can't remember that much about it, but a lot of it seems to have been assessed through question and answers to me by the paed ie what can/can't she do?

Her hearing was tested - ie searching for a hidden sound. Also they observed her looking at a book, was she pointing etc. There was a test to see if she could follow a object being moved across her vision, whether she would pick up and bang blocks together, or push a car along/roll a ball/draw on paper.

Another test was for putting objects in and out of a box with a lid, also a very simple peg board jigsaw.

Hope this helps - best of luck with the assessment.

oops posted with the wrong name, but may as well keep it for now!!

Thanks to everyone for your replies. We had the assessment this morning and it went pretty well. At 13 months old he came out as advanced for speech and social behaviour, slightly delayed on his hand/eye stuff and at a 9 month level for gross motor, which we expected.

They don't want to see us again for 9 months as we are getting physio help and she said any other areas where he is behind can be quite normal especially as he is advanced in language - she was impressed with his 15 words! She also said that she had no reason to be concerned and although he isn't index finger pointing yet (uses his whole hand) as far as she is concerned he shows no autistic traits. I was reassured by this especially as she spends 90% of her time working with autistic children.

Thanks again for you help.