What does the department require in the developmental assessment of children?
The department seeks detailed information of developmental status in clients for adoption, or where specific or global developmental delay is suspected. Please consider referral to professionals experienced at testing psychomotor development in a range of age groups. The tests used should be formalised. Where specialist services are not available please attempt to provide as much information as possible with specific comment on cognitive, social, gross and fine motor, and language and communication function. Local growth charts should be used wherever possible. A large range of population-specific growth charts are available. See: www.adoptmed.org/topics/growth-charts For further information on developmental assessment of children, please refer to page 35, Question 9 and page 51, Attachment 2: Child development milestone guidelines, of the Panel Instructions.
