Kids World Day Care Center - Frequently Asked Questions


	1. Who else can help me about my kid?
	2. What is "Functional Skill?"
	3. What is "Academic Skill?"
	4. What are the indications that my child has developmental delay?


	1. Mental health or family support professional
	Counselors, social workers, family coordinator, or mental health professionals who can help you and your family deal with these special issues you face because you have a child with learning problems.
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2. Functional Skills

Functional skills are skills that enable a person to look after his own day-to-day needs so that he can get along as independently as possible in society. Examples include:

	1. Self-care skills such as feeding, dressing, toileting
	2. House making skills such as vacuuming, cooking and bed-making
	3. Functional reading skills including the ability to read labels and street signs and the ability to fill out and job applications
	4. Functional money skills such as being able to make change or handle a checking account
	5. Community living skills such as crossing the street safely, riding a bus or holding a job

3. Academic Skills

Academic skills are subjects such as reading, writing, arithmetic and etc. Before your child can learn these academic skills, he must have certain pre-academic skills such as

	1. Basic skills such as paying attention, sitting and listening, following directions, taking turns
	2. Verbal and communication skills such as answering questions, imitating words and expressing ideas
	3. Identifications skills, such as learning the names of body parts, colors, shapes
	4. Pre-writing skills, such as learning to hold a crayon
	5. Pre-reading skills such as looking at and describing pictures


	4. Indications for further evaluation of developmental delay

3 months

· Does not react to sudden noises

· Does not appear to listen to a speaker's voice

· Does not try to find the speakers voice

· Has not begun to vocalize sounds

· Does not raise his head when lying on stomach

6 months

· Does not turn to speaking person

· Does not respond to being played with

· Is not visually alert

· Never laughs or smiles

· Is not babbling

· Does not reach for a toy or tries to pick up a toy

· Is not learning to sit up

· Does not arch back when lying on stomach or raising head

12 months

· Has not been responding to pat-a-cake or peek-a-boo

· Is not imitating a variety of sounds

· Is not saying 2-3 words such as bye, mama or dada

· Is not pulling up to a standing position

18 months

· Is not beginning to feed self with spoon

· Does not imitate speech or vocalize in jargon

· Is not moving to explore

· Does not make eye contact

· Has not or does not spontaneously squat when picking up objects

2 years

· Is not naming a few familiar objects and using a few to three word phrases

· Is not noticing animals, cars, trucks or trains

· Is not beginning to play symbolically with housekeeping toys, little cars

· Is not moving around vigorously, climbing, running, exploring

· Avoids eye contact

· Does not seem to focus on large picture

· Engages in rocking or head banging for extensive periods of time

· Is not walking up stairs

3 years

· Does not seem aware of other children, adults, the weather, traffic, etc

· Uses little or no speech

· Does not engage in imitative play symbolic of adult activities

· Avoids looking at pictures or pointing to pictures of familiar objects

· Does not follow simple directions

· Engages in long periods of time in repetitive behaviors like flipping pages, spinning wheels, head banging

· Cannot ride a tricycle if given an opportunity to do so

4 years

· Does not have partially understandable speech with sentences

· Uses echo laic speech or frequent meaningless bizarre sounds

· Does not focus visually on any pictures

· Does not seem interested in listening to a simple story about his or her experiences

· Repeatedly tests limits

· Is so quiet and conforming that he or she never tries anything new

· Runs about from one thing to another every minute or so without getting involved in an activity

· Is still not toilet trained

· Does not pay attention to other children

· Avoids eye contact

· Engages in head banging or rocking

· Cannot tolerate change or frustration without frequent tantrums

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