Table 1 Areas of child development and corresponding standardised tests

motor development

gross motor skills

standing on one leg; jumping on one leg; going like a rope dancer; going with clapping hands

fine motor coordination grapho- motor coordination

finger-opposition-test; drawing different figures; drawing of a person

development of speech

pronunciation

repeating words

grammar

retelling a short story; retelling a short picture story; explaining rules of a well known game

rhythm of speech

repeating sentences

development of cognition

memory and concentration

repeating sentences with 7–10 words including three adjectives; repeating four single numbers in the correct sequence

perseverance

discontinuity of capacity during the whole time of medical examinations

abstraction

building pairs; finding out a object of various objects belonging together

visual perception

reception and knowing of simple geometric figures or silhouettes of figures and animals

arithmetic

counting from 1 to 10 in the correct sequence

psychosocial development

behaviour, emotionality, psycho motor et cetera