Movement Assessment Battery for Children | Second Edition

The Movement ABC-2 assessment is paralleled by an observational approach to perceptual-motor aspects and emotional and motivational difficulties the child may have in relation to motor tasks.

Benefits

• Identify delay or impairment in motor development.
• Help plan intervention programs and measures change as a result of intervention.
• Assist in researching involvement motor skills and development.
• Assess groups of children in classroom situations.
• Obtain parents' or teachers' views on a child's movement in everyday settings.
• Measure the extent to which a child's attitudes and feelings about motor tasks are situation specific or more generalized.

Features

The kit includes a full assessment battery, a checklist, and an ecological intervention manual. The intervention manual is based on research and provides a complete guide to helping children with movement difficulties.

• Includes eight tasks for three age ranges: 3–6 years; 7–10 years and 11–16 years.
• Tasks cover three areas: Manual Dexterity, Ball Skills, Static and Dynamic Balance.
• Comprehensive normative and clinical studies.
• Simple scoring and interpretation system.
• Separate intervention manual.
• Extensive international research built over the previous version of the assessment and this version, featuring in over 500 studies.
• Extensive translations worldwide.