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    Objective assessment application for preschool child development
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03) Odendaal, Guillaume; Van den Heever, D.; Springer, P. E.; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Engineering. Dept. of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering.
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The need for early developmental screening tests is made clear throughout literature. The problem with current developmental screening tests is that they are susceptible to bias and are time- and resource-intensive. Current tests have the administrator convey instructions to a child and then note the proficiency w ith w hich t he c hild h as c ompleted t he t ask, t hus l eaving room for subjectivity and bias within the tester’s decision. The lack of trained personnel in rural areas - such as in South Africa - only adds to the sparsity of assessment tools being used. Current tablet assessment applications address these problems but confine t hemselves t o o ne o r t wo m etrics p er construct measured. Fine-motor and language tests were gathered from literature and standardised tests and implemented on a tablet application. These tests were filtered according to implementability and counsel of medical professionals in the field of early child development. The tablet application was built with modularity in mind to ease the process of adaptation for cultural and age-appropriate conversions. An accompanying assessment pipeline was constructed to automatically process the data from the tablet assessment into interpretable results.