Institute of Clinical Psychology

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    Functional developmental profile for age 7-8 years old (boys): a validation study
    (University of Management and Technology Lahore, 2017) Fatima Noreen
    Child development is the every important and delicate area with regards to functionality, assessment and management because of the versatility of culture and its impacts on child development. This research study was intended to validate a culturallyrelevant scale to assess the functional development of school children with the age range of 7-8 years old (M= 7.58 &SD= .49). Along with that relationship of the five developmental areas which are physical, adaptive behaviors, social/emotional, cognitive and communication skills were assessed and also age and class difference in functional development was also explored. Developmental profile (Alpern, 2007) was used to validate it in this culture, for this purpose 100 mainstream school children (Boys) of age 7-8 years old were taken as a researchparticipant. Finding of the research study showed that test retest reliability of the validated tool is very high. Positive correlation was found among five developmental areas and it was revealed that children of 8 years are more functional development tan children of 7 years old. Class wise different was also found in the results which suggests that as grade of the student increase his functional development is also increases. With the help of this research study not just mainstream children but also special education children will be facilitated in the course of assessment of their functional age