What is it about?
The GIFT is a unique tool that measures performance skills based on preschool children’s everyday activities. It can be used by paediatric occupational therapists as a first step for early identification of children potentially at risk for graphomotor/fine motor developmental delay.
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Why is it important?
The GIFT is a new norm-reference screening tool for use with preschool children. The GIFT has high indices of reliability and satisfactory indices of content, construct concurrent and discriminant validity.
Perspectives
Dr. Yafit Gilboa, is an occupational therapist and a lecturer at the School of Occupational Therapy, Hadassah-Hebrew University. She is the director of the Telerehabilitation lab whose research focused on advanced technologies in rehabilitation.
Yafit Gilboa
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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This page is a summary of: Development and initial validation of the Gilboa functional test (GIFT): A unique measure for preschool graphomotor screening, British Journal of Occupational Therapy, July 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0308022617711670.
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