Table 2.
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.