Abstract
To study the age at which children are ready for oral examination, oral examination was carried out on 154 children aged 1-5 years, and the relationship of their responses to the examination and the state of their development was analyzed using AIC.
1. Whether the child was ready for oral examination or not closely correlated to the developmental age, chronological age, and degree of independence in ADL.
2. The optimal cut-off point concerning the readiness for oral examination was 2 years and 6 months for the chronological age, and was between 2 years and 4.5 months to 2 years and 10.5 months for the developmental age.
3. Children aged 2 years and 6 months or older in their chronologeical age are considered to be ready for oral examination.
