Assessment & Screeners

Developmental screenings give insight into your child’s development and help parents and teachers gain an understanding of their child’s unique strengths and areas of improvement. Aligned with CDC standards of development, developmental screenings identify if your child is on the right track, or if certain areas need more specialized attention.

Every screening includes individualized observations by an experienced developmental professional, discussion of your child's strengths, areas that may benefit from additional support, personalized recommendations, home strategies and activities, guidance regarding whether additional services or a comprehensive evaluation may be beneficial, and a written summary of findings and recommendations.

Our areas available for screening in either 30min or 60min sessions include:

• General Developmental Screening: A broad overview of your child's developmental progress, including communication, learning, play, social interaction, adaptive skills, and overall developmental milestones.

• Speech & Language Screening: Evaluates speech production, language development, communication skills, receptive language, expressive language, articulation, and overall communication abilities.

• Occupational Therapy Screening: Screens for fine motor skills, sensory processing, visual-motor integration, self-care skills, handwriting readiness, body awareness, coordination, and functional independence.

• Fine Motor Screening: Evaluates hand strength, grasp patterns, bilateral coordination, cutting, coloring, pre-writing, handwriting readiness, and classroom fine motor skills.

• Gross Motor Screening: Checks balance, coordination, strength, posture, body control, motor planning, running, jumping, climbing, and age-appropriate movement skills.

• Sensory Processing Screening: Evaluates sensory regulation, sensory seeking or avoidance behaviors, body awareness, emotional regulation, attention, and responses to everyday sensory experiences.

• Social Skills Screening: Assesses peer interaction, conversation skills, sharing, turn-taking, friendship development, emotional understanding, perspective taking, and cooperative interactions.

• Play Development Screening: Evaluates developmental stages of play including independent play, parallel play, associative play, cooperative play, imaginative play, symbolic play, and social play skills.

• School Readiness Screening: Determines readiness for preschool or kindergarten by evaluating classroom behaviors, following directions, attention, independence, early academic skills, and social-emotional readiness.

• Kindergarten Readiness Screening: Assesses the foundational skills needed for a successful transition into kindergarten, including literacy, math readiness, communication, social skills, self-help skills, and classroom participation.

• Reading Readiness Screening: Screens phonological awareness, letter recognition, vocabulary, listening comprehension, early literacy skills, and foundational reading readiness.

• Reading Fluency Screening: Evaluates decoding, fluency, comprehension, phonics, vocabulary, reading accuracy, and overall reading performance.

• Writing & Handwriting Screening: Assesses handwriting readiness, letter formation, pencil grasp, spacing, writing fluency, visual-motor integration, and written language skills.

• Executive Function Screening: Screens attention, working memory, organization, planning, problem-solving, impulse control, cognitive flexibility, and self-monitoring skills.

• Learning Skills Screening: Evaluates academic readiness, attention, learning behaviors, memory, processing skills, classroom participation, and study skills.

• Behavioral Screening: Reviews behavioral concerns, emotional regulation, compliance, transitions, routines, adaptive behaviors, and environmental factors that may be affecting success at home or school.

Learn about a single area with a 30min screening, or select multiple areas for a 60min screening. Take the first step today!

When parents want a complete understanding of their child's strengths, challenges, learning style, communication abilities, developmental skills, or school readiness, a Comprehensive Evaluation provides the detailed information needed to create an individualized plan for success. At Beehive Academy, our comprehensive evaluations go beyond simply identifying concerns. We focus on understanding the whole child—how they learn, communicate, interact, play, solve problems, regulate emotions, and develop the skills needed to thrive at home, school, and in the community.

Every evaluation includes professional observations, standardized and/or criterion-referenced assessments (as appropriate), interpretation of results, individualized recommendations, a comprehensive written report, and a parent feedback conference. Our goal is to provide families with meaningful answers, practical recommendations, and a clear roadmap for supporting their child's continued growth and development.

Our evaluations include:

• Comprehensive Developmental Evaluation: A broad developmental evaluation examining communication, cognitive development, adaptive functioning, social-emotional development, play, learning readiness, behavior, and developmental milestones. 

• Behavior Consultation & Functional Assessment: A comprehensive behavioral assessment designed to identify behavioral strengths, environmental influences, skill deficits, and individualized recommendations for improving behavior at home, school, and in the community. 

• Speech & Language Evaluation: A comprehensive evaluation of expressive language, receptive language, articulation, speech sound production, fluency, voice, social communication, pragmatic language, and functional communication skills. 

• Occupational Therapy Evaluation: A detailed evaluation of fine motor development, sensory processing, visual-motor integration, self-care skills, handwriting readiness, coordination, motor planning, and functional daily living skills. 

• Comprehensive Educational Evaluation: Evaluates academic performance, learning strengths, educational needs, classroom functioning, curriculum skills, and recommendations for individualized educational planning and intervention. 

• Kindergarten Readiness Evaluation: A comprehensive review of the developmental and academic skills children need before entering kindergarten, including literacy, numeracy, communication, classroom behaviors, self-help skills, attention, and social-emotional readiness. 

• School Readiness Evaluation: Evaluates the foundational developmental, behavioral, communication, and learning skills necessary for success in preschool, transitional kindergarten, or elementary school. 

• Executive Function Evaluation: Evaluates attention, working memory, planning, organization, cognitive flexibility, emotional regulation, problem-solving, impulse control, and executive functioning skills that impact learning and daily success. 

• Learning Skills Evaluation: Provides a comprehensive assessment of learning behaviors, memory, processing skills, attention, organization, classroom performance, and academic readiness. 

• Social Skills Evaluation: Evaluates peer relationships, conversational skills, emotional understanding, perspective taking, friendship development, social problem-solving, and cooperative interaction skills. 

• Play Skills Evaluation: Assesses developmental stages of play, imaginative play, symbolic play, cooperative play, social play, creativity, play flexibility, and developmental play milestones. 

• Sensory Processing Evaluation: Evaluates sensory processing patterns, self-regulation, sensory modulation, body awareness, sensory preferences, and the impact of sensory processing on learning and daily activities. 

• Fine Motor Evaluation: Assesses hand strength, dexterity, bilateral coordination, visual-motor integration, cutting, handwriting readiness, classroom fine motor skills, and functional hand use. 

• Gross Motor Evaluation: Evaluates balance, coordination, posture, strength, motor planning, body awareness, movement patterns, and age-appropriate gross motor development. 

• Parent Consultation & Developmental Planning: A consultation designed to review concerns, previous evaluations, school reports, developmental history, and provide individualized recommendations and a personalized developmental action plan. 

A comprehensive evaluation is more than a report—it is the foundation for helping your child reach their fullest potential. The earlier concerns are identified, the sooner meaningful support can begin.

These academic achievement tests provide a picture of your child's developmental, academic, social, and functional skills so families can confidently prepare for a successful transition into school. 

Whether your child is entering preschool, pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, or first grade, our evaluation identifies strengths, highlights areas that may benefit from additional support, and provides practical recommendations to help your child begin school with confidence.

Our academic assessments include:

• Reading Readiness and Ability: An assessment of reading readiness and achievement, covering early literacy, including letter recognition, letter sounds, phonological awareness, rhyming, vocabulary, listening comprehension, print awareness, and story comprehension, as well as more complex literacy skills like executive functioning, learning skills, language and communication, inferencing, making predictions, and drawing conclusions.

• Writing Readiness and Ability: Evaluates handwriting, written expression, visual-motor integration, fine motor skills, pencil grasp, spacing, letter formation, written language organization, and writing fluency in addition to language, executive functioning, and learning behaviors.

• Math Readiness and Ability: An assessment of mathematical readiness and achievement, covering number sense, early math concepts, mathematical reasoning, computation readiness, executive functioning, visual-spatial skills, language for math, and learning behaviors.

By identifying these skills early, children can receive targeted instruction before gaps become larger and more difficult to overcome.