Screening Program
Mosaic Minds Academy helps promote early identification. Mosaic Minds Academy offers an array of comprehensive screening options to promote early identification of communication, early learning, feeding, and motor development concerns. Mosaic Minds Academy offers screenings in our clinic and in partnership with local childcare providers, preschools, and private schools. Most doctors’ offices do not offer comprehensive screenings for speech, language, feeding, and motor development skills. The information gathered from the screening can identify children who should receive further evaluation. Contact Mosaic Minds Academy to learn more.
Infants
For children less than 2 years, developmental milestones are assessed by parent and/or caregiver questionnaires and by a series of observations at the time of screening. Children less than 2 years old are screened for typically developing motor movement including body symmetry, motor strength, oral motor movements, eye contact, language skills, and overall development.
Speech
Early detection and intervention of speech and language problems can significantly improve a child’s ability to learn and communicate. Children ages 2 to 3 years are screened forage-appropriate emergence of speech sounds and gestures. Children ages 3 to 7 years are screened for age-appropriate production of speech sounds. Additionally, children are assessed for overall speech clarity/intelligibility in both formal and conversational speech production.
Language
Children learn skills important for reading and writing during early speech and language development. Our standardized language screening is used to help determine if a child’s language skills are developing typically or if he or she is in need of further assessment of language abilities.
Social/play and sensory
Social skills are behaviors that promote positive interactions with others and the environment, and the development of social skills lays a critical foundation for academic achievement. Play is important for healthy brain development, it is closely tied to cognitive, socio-emotional, and motor development of young children. Play also provides a means and opportunity for children to learn and improve their social skills Sensory integration is the effective registration and accurate interpretation of sensory input in the environment. It is the way the brain receives, organizes, and responds to sensory input in order to behave in a meaningful and consistent manner. Our screener in these areas helps us understand how your child is responding to his/her environment, and if a child’s play and social skills are developing typically or if he or she is in need of a further assessment of social, play, and/or sensory skills.
Motor development
Motor skills are related to cognitive development and the ability to perform a number of early learning tasks. Our standardized motor screening is used to help understand how your child is using his or her body and to help determine if a child’s motor skills are developing typically or if further assessment of fine or gross motor skills is necessary. Overall, this information can help with planning your child’s education and, if necessary, can help parents and teachers address any needs your child may have at home or at school.
