Occupational Therapy Paediatric Initial Assessment

Make your paediatric OT initial assessments more structured, comprehensive and session-ready with this printable Occupational Therapy Initial Assessment Screening Tool.

Designed for paediatric occupational therapists, this resource provides a practical way to screen a child across the key areas of occupational performance and identify areas requiring further assessment or intervention.

What’s Included

This assessment resource screens across all major occupational areas, including:

🏠 Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)

🧼 Personal care and hygiene

👕 Dressing

🍽️ Feeding and mealtimes

🚽 Toileting

🛏️ Sleep and routines

🏫 School and education

✏️ Fine motor skills

🏃 Gross motor skills

🧠 Cognition and executive functioning

🎯 Attention and concentration

🗣️ Communication and social participation

❤️ Emotional regulation

👥 Play and leisure

🏡 Home participation

🤝 Social participation

🧩 Sensory processing

🌱 Independence and participation

⭐ Strengths, interests and goals

This resource is designed to be printed and used directly during an initial assessment session, helping you gather relevant occupational information without having to create your own assessment checklist from scratch.

Use it to:

✔️ Guide your initial interview

✔️ Identify occupational concerns

✔️ Explore strengths and challenges

✔️ Record parent/carer concerns

✔️ Identify areas requiring further assessment

✔️ Support clinical reasoning

✔️ Establish priorities for intervention

✔️ Help develop meaningful occupational goals

Perfect For

Print it, bring it into your session, and use it as your starting point for a comprehensive paediatric OT assessment.

This resource is intended as a screening and information-gathering tool and does not replace formal standardised assessments or professional clinical judgement.