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Are you searching for a functional motor skill assessment for orthopedically disabled students?

Stop searching and use the KALMS (R): Kounas Assessment of Limited Mobility Students

	It is appropriate for ages 3-21
	All field testers agree that it really works for this population
	It yields more information from one single assessment that many others
	It yields practical information regarding wheelchair mobility, body awareness, unilateral and bilateral coordination and commonly measured motor skills related to game activities
	Present functional levels of student performance can be identified
	It enables one to plan appropriate activity programs for these students
	Quick and easy to administer
	Over 200 students with 21 different types of orthopedic disabilities were included among the field test population
	Reliability factor is 89%
	Construct validity achieved

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Information about the author of the KALMS (R) Test

For over twenty years, I taught Adapted Physical Education for the Rialto Unified School District of Rialto, CA. Since 1997, I have been employed as a part-time lecturer at California State University, San Bernardino, CA. I have taught all of the courses required for completion of the Adapted Physical Education credential and supervised student teachers in the process of obtaining this credential.

As an Adapted Physical Education Specialist, part of my caseload included students with orthopedic disabilities. Assessment of this population is always more difficult because of the many a varied types of disabilities. In addition to the various types of disabilities, there is a huge variation in the functional use of limbs, even within the same disability. In order to plan an appropriate program that included games and activities, I needed facts concerning their functional skill abilities. After a number of years of searching for the assessment that would quickly give me this information, I decided to develop my own test.

In 1995, I copyrighted the KALMS test. This test was not published, but several Adapted Physical Education Specialists volunteered to use and critique its merits. The field testing on KALMS indicated that a few revisions were needed to make test administration easier and include all the necessary information. In 1999, I copyrighted the KALMS (R), which is a revision of the first test.

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