Children’s Hand use Experience Questionnaire (CHEQ)

The Children's Hand-use Experience Questionnaire (CHEQ) asks a child with a one-sided hand impairment how using that hand actually feels in everyday two-handed tasks, not what a therapist observes in a clinic, but the child's own experience at home and school.

Twenty-nine bimanual activities are presented one at a time in random order. For each, the respondent first says whether the child does it independently and whether one hand or two are used. Then three sub-questions follow, each rated on a four-point scale: how effective the affected hand's grasp is, how long the task takes compared with peers, and how bothered the child feels doing it. Each scale produces a score from 0 to 100, where higher means better.

• Development and Validity: Sköld et al. (2011)

Licensing Notes: Available free of charge through the developers' site. It is a computer-adaptive online questionnaire rather than a paper form. Reproduction outside their platform would need their permission.

Learn More: The CHEQ was developed for children with unilateral cerebral palsy, upper limb reduction deficiency, or obstetric brachial plexus palsy — not for CP alone. For children under 13, the developers recommend a parent act as proxy.