Publications & Resources

In 2009, our Occupational Therapist Team published the Hong Kong Preschool Children Fine Motor Developmental Assessment (HK-PFMDA) Examiner’s Manual, the first-ever Chinese standardised assessment based on the normative data from local children, for occupational therapists to carry out assessment on children. The Manual is widely adopted by occupational therapists since its publication.

The awareness of early childhood rehabilitation service and early interference is raised in recent years. Occupational therapists need to carry out assessment for children so as to identify children with developmental delay and to provide professional training. The standardised and time-saving fine motor developmental assessment can help increasing the efficiency of therapists clinical work.

Sponsored by Social Welfare Department’s Social Welfare Development Fund, Heep Hong Society started the research project of Hong Kong Preschool Fine Motor Screening in 2016. By carefully picking 36 screening test items from 87 HK-PRMDA assessment items; recollecting and analysing the fine motor development statistics of local children aged from30 months to 6years, the Society calculated cut-off score of sensitivity and specificity of each age group respectively. A fine motor screening test with high distinguishability and validity is established.

The HK-PFMST Examiner's Manual is complemented by Assessment Tools and available for registered occupational therapists only.

More details of HK-PFMDA and HK-PFMST, please refer to Chinese version.