The Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI™) is a comprehensive clinical assessment of key functional capabilities and performance in children between the ages of six months and seven years. The PEDI™ can be used to evaluate older children with functional abilities that are less than those expected of a 7-year-old child without disabilities. The PEDI™ is a descriptive measure of a child's current functional performance and can track changes over time.

The PEDI™ measures both capability and performance of functional activities in three content domains:

• Self-care
• Mobility
• Social function

The PEDI-MCAT™ is the latest addition to the PEDI family of instruments. It is normed from 6 months to 14 years of age and includes the assessment of self-care and mobility function.

Application
The PEDI™ is used to monitor functional outcomes in clinical settings. It is also used to document functional change in research studies of treatment approaches and pharmacologic interventions.

Formats
The PEDI™ is a paper based instrument.

The computerized PEDI-MCAT™ provides individual patient reports that summarize a patient’s functional status and a comparison of scores to the norm.