View Cart Assessment is a term used by professional case managers. It can involve anything from determining a person's need for intensive rehabilitation to setting up temporary home health care to developing a financial plan for life long care. Therapists and educators and also use assessment to identify needs, strengths and difficulties as they design treatment and educational plans. Assessment is a preliminary and necessary step before setting goals. While formal testing, examinations and consultations are often used by professionals in this process, assessment is a skill that need not be limited to doctors, case managers, therapists or educators.
Parents are also capable of assessing their child.
No one will ever know a child better than parents. They see their child in all types of situations - when rested or tried, when relaxed or under stress, when focused or confused, during the day or at night. Parents are also eyewitnesses to their child's ongoing recovery from the brain injury as well as their child's ongoing growth and development. Yet too often, parents voice frustrations of not being taken seriously by medical or rehabilitation staff. Sitting in a roomful of educators at a special education team meeting can be intimidating as reports are given and goals and objectives negotiated.