Goal Oriented Assessment of Life Skills (GOAL)

The GOAL measures the motor skills a child actually needs to get through a day — not isolated coordination tasks, but the movements behind dressing, eating, carrying things, and managing a bathroom or kitchen.

Seven activities are built around real occupations, and each is broken into small observable steps. Fifty-four steps in total are scored pass or fail on three elements of successful performance: accuracy, independence, and speed. Step scores combine into Fine Motor and Gross Motor standard scores plus a single Progress Score for tracking change over time. Because each activity links to specific Intervention Targets in four areas — sensory, postural, praxis, and motor proficiency — results translate directly into a treatment plan.

Licensing Notes: Published by WPS with level C qualification required. Record forms are consumables sold in packs of 25. Reproduction requires publisher permission.

Learn More: The record form is built around workflow rather than around scoring: the centre panel graphs overall functional ability as a Progress Chart, and the right panel lists Intervention Targets so performance links directly to objectives.