Date Started:

(Tick and date when child has acquired the skill)

A. Motor Development

Child is able to:

1. Recognise everyday objects (e.g. cup, ball) ________

2. Match three dimensional objects ________

3. Understand concept "same" ________

4. Understand concept "different" ________

"first", "second", "last" ________

"top", "bottom" ________

Beads on dowelling ________

Beads on laces ________

8. Screw on lids ________

9. Use both hands well ________

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B. Tactile Perception

1. Sort textures ________

2. Recognise different shapes ________

3. Recognise tactile symbols ________

4. Pick the odd one out in a line of shapes ________

5. Pick the odd one out in a line of symbols ________

6. Pick out the rotated and reflected symbols in a line ________

7. Pick out a space and odd Braille symbol in a line ________

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C. Concepts of Print, Book and Literacy

1. Understand and enjoy a simple story ________

2. Position Braille book correctly ________

3. Identify tactile pictures in the book ________

4. Identify Braille in the book ________

5. Turn pages

Turns Braille pages easily ________

Reads last line with left hand,

and turns page with right hand _______

6. Easily locate:

Top of page ________

Bottom of page

Braille page number ________

Beginning of each Braille line ________

End of each Braille line ________

D. Tracking

1. Understand "left" and "right" ________

2. Track evenly across the page

Lines of even length ________

Lines of varying lengths ________

Lines of different patterns ________

Using both hands together _________

Backtracking to beginning of next line ________

Using the left hand to find beginning of next line ______

3. Use light finger pressure ________

4. Adopts correct posture

Hands relaxed ________

Fingers curved ________

E. Auditory Skills

Child able to:

1. Recognise everyday sounds ________

2. Recognise direction of sounds ________

3. Imitate sounds ________

4. Differentiate between quality of sounds

"loud", "soft", "slow", "quick"  ________

5. Repeat short sentences ________

6. Learn rhymes ________

7. Follow a series of instructions ________

8. Beat a rhythm ________

Comments:

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F. Phonic Skills

1. Recognise words which begin with the same sound ________

2. Identify the sound at the beginning of a word ________

3. Recognise some letters by their shape ________

4. Reproduce some letters on plastic film ________