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. 2005 Sep 30;2:29. doi: 10.1186/1743-0003-2-29

Table 2.

Teachers' Rating and PANESS Assessment

Teachers' Rating
Cluster Definition Score

Read and Write reading: speed and correctness writing: tract quality and correctness oral language production (vocabulary richness and fluency and structure) Scoring 0–3
0 is best score
Arithmetics Arithmetics text: reading and placing numbers
Arithmetcs logic: operations
Sequences: understands and repeats sequences days, months, alphabets and multiplication tables
Scoring 0–3
0 is best score
Attention and Movement Motor activity in the gym/garden: follow instructions without confusing left-right, in/out
Motor activity in class: from being able to sit still, to fine movements to gross movements he cannot avoid Attention: attention span
Scoring 0–3
0 is best score
Behavior: creativity: having many interests
Social behavior: being integrated in class group and having friends
Team working: following group rules
Autonomy: not needing continuous instructions
Scoring 0–3
0 is best score

PANESS*

Cluster Definition Score

Errors errors on tip-toe walking
errors on heel walking
errors on nose-finger (right)
errors on nose-finger (left)
scoring 0–3, depending on total number of errors (oscillations or falls during walking, misses or wrong fingers during other tests)
Precision Index-little tapping on thumb (right)
Index-little tapping on thumb (left)
Tandem walking
sequence of movements is correct from index to little with no repetitions or misses independently of rhythm Scoring 0–3.
Rhythm Index-little tapping on thumb (right)
Index-little tapping on thumb (left)
Tandem walking
the self chosen rhythm is kept during task independently of misses of repetitions.
Scoring 0–3.

*Adapted from Denckla [35].

Total scores for PANESS and Teachers' Rating were obtained by summing each cluster value. Subjects were excluded if at least one total score was outside [10–90] percentile.