Partington suggests that parents specifically ask for this test. He says, "If you don't know what a child knows and doesn't know, you can't teach them. What you want to do is ensure that the level of teaching is at the appropriate level. When you go to the IEP meeting, you know what the appropriate goals are.... Without such an assessment, [therapists] ... may choose activities based on age-appropriate expectations. [When this happens], a child may be working on "red" and "blue" [when he] should really be working on concrete object identification."
Without appropriate assessment, your child's therapist may spend months working on advanced ideas, depriving your child of the basic concepts he or she needs to progress.
