Functional Emotional Assessment Scale FEAS: Measurement of the functional emotional developmental le

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Functional Emotional Assessment Scale (FEAS)
Measurement of the functional emotional
developmental levels in the DIR model

• So-sum NG, Speech Therapist

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FEAS

• Measures functional emotional developmental
  capacities of children
• Measures parents abilities to support the above
  capacities through spontaneous interactions
• A systematic, valid and reliable observational
  measure
• Clinical, research and training purposes
• Based on DIR model

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• Specifically designed to detect problems across a
  wide range of challenges
• - regulatory disorders
• - developmental disorders
• - children from multiproblem families
• Validated on 4 samples normal, regulatory
  disorder, PDD and multiproblem

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• 6 age specific versions
• - 7 to 9 months
• - 10 to 12 months
• - 13 to 18 months
• - 19 to 24 months
• - 25 to 35 months
• - 36 to 48 months

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• Best at assessing children with
• Regulatory disorders 7-24 months
• PDD 2-4 years
• Multiproblem 13-18 months
• Normal 7-18 months

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• Procedures
• 15 minutes to warm-up
• 15 minutes play (symbolic, sensory, movement 5
  minutes each)
• examiner facilitates interactions by coaching
  parents or eliciting play behaviour which were
  not observed directly

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• Start with symbolic toys (developmentally
  appropriate)
• Symbolic toy examples for infants and toddlers
  toy house figures, baby, dinosaurs
• Symbolic toy examples for preschoolers baby,
  pirate ship knights, dressing up figures

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• Sensory toy examples see-through scarfs, bonbon
• Movement toy examples rocking horse, ball,
  blanket

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• Tape the 15 minutes play
• ? record and sharing
• Ask parents feelings after play
• ? parents perspectives

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• Scoring
• - score frequency (0, 1, 2 ? 0, 1-, 1, 2-, 2)
• - 0 not at all or very brief
• 1 present some of time, observed
  several times
• 2 consistently present, observed many times
• N/O not observed
• - converted score (0?2, 2?0)

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• - 3 columns SYM, SENS, EXAM
• (Note any difference between SYM and
• SENS)
• - chart caregiver and child
• - compared with profile form
• ? normal / at risk / deficient

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• FEAS\caregiver.doc
• FEAS\child.doc
• FEAS\profile.doc

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• Greenspan Social-emotional Growth Chart
  Questionnaire parent questionnaire
• Added into social-emotional subtest in Bayley -
  III Scales of Infant and Toddler Development
• www.PsychCorp.com

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• P.L.A.Y. project Richard Solomon MD
• - screening and tracking with Greenspan
• Growth Chart
• - clinical uses inform clinical judgement,
• program evaluation, IEP goals
• - training
• - research
• Publication Autism (2006)
• www.playproject.org