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31.2  Assessment, Examination, and Psychological Testing

Table 31.2-4 Commonly Used Child and Adolescent Psychological Assessment Instruments Test Age/Grades Data Generated and Comments Intellectual ability

Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children—Third Edition (WISC-III-R) Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale—(WAIS-III)

6–16

Standard scores: verbal, performance and full-scale IQ; scaled subtest scores permitting specific skill assessment.

16–adult

Same as WISC-III-R.

Wechsler Preschool

3–7

Same as WISC-III-R.

and Primary Scale of Intelligence—Revised (WPPSI-R)

Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC)

2.6–12.6

Well grounded in theories of cognitive psychology and neuropsychology. Allows immediate comparison of intellectual capacity with acquired knowledge. Scores: Mental Processing Composite (IQ equivalent); sequential and simultaneous processing and achievement standard scores; scaled mental processing and achievement subtest scores; age equivalents; percentiles. Composed of separate Crystallized and Fluid scales. Scores: Composite Intelligence Scale; Crystallized and Fluid IQ; scaled subtest scores; percentiles. Scores: IQ; verbal, abstract/visual, and quantitative reasoning; short-term memory; standard age. Measures receptive vocabulary acquisition; standard scores, percentiles, age equivalents. Scores: reading and mathematics (mechanics and comprehension), written language, other academic achievement; grade and age scores, standard scores, percentiles. Permits screening for deficits in reading, spelling, and arithmetic; grade levels, percentiles, stanines, standard scores. Standard scores: reading, mathematics, and spelling; grade and age equivalents, percentiles, stanines. Brief Form is sufficient for most clinical applications; Comprehensive Form allows error analysis and more detailed curriculum planning. Standard scores: basic reading, mathematics reasoning, spelling, reading comprehension, numerical operations, listening comprehension, oral expression, written expression. Co-normal with WISC-III-R. Standard scores: adaptive behavior composite and communication, daily living skills, socialization and motor domains; percentiles, age equivalents, developmental age scores. Separate standardization groups for normal, visually handicapped, hearing impaired, emotionally disturbed, and retarded. Standard scores: four adaptive (motor, social interaction, communication, personal living, community living) and three maladaptive (internalized, asocial, and externalized) areas; General Maladaptive Index and Broad Independence cluster. Standard scores, standard deviations, ranges; corrections for age and education. Standard scores, standard deviations, T-scores, percentiles, developmental norms for number of categories achieved, perseverative errors, and failures to maintain set; computer measures. Teacher and parent rating scales and child self-report of personality permitting multireporter assessment across a variety of domains in home, school, and community. Provides validity, clinical, and adaptive scales. ADHD component avails. Permits parents to rate child’s specific problems with attention or concentration. Scores for number of problem settings, mean severity, and factor scores for compliance and leisure situations. Score for number of symptoms keyed to DSM cutoff for diagnosis of ADHD; standard scores permit derivation of clinical significance for total score and two factors (Inattentive-Hyperactive and Impulsive-Hyperactive). Permits teachers to rate a child’s specific problems with attention or concentration. Scores for number of problem settings and mean severity. Brief measure allowing teachers’ weekly ratings of presence and degree of child’s inattention and overactivity. Normative scores for inattention, overactivity, and total score. ( continued )

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Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test (KAIT) Stanford-Binet, 4 th Edition (SB:FE) Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test—III (PPVT-III) Achievement Woodcock-Johnson Psycho- Educational Battery— Revised (W-J) Wide Range Achievement Test—3, Levels 1 and 2 (WRAT-3) Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement, Brief and Comprehensive Forms (K-TEA) Wechsler Individual Achievement Test (WIAT) Adaptive behavior Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales

2–23

4–adult

K–12

Level 1: 1–5 Level 2: 12–75

1–12

K–12

Normal: 0–19 Retarded: All ages

Scales of Independent Behavior—Revised

Newborn– adult

Attentional capacity Trail Making Test

8–adult

Wisconsin Card Sorting Test

6.6–adult

Behavior Assessment System for Children (BASC)

4–18

Home Situations Questionnaire—Revised (HSQ-R)

6–12

ADHD Rating Scale

6–12

School Situations

6–12

Questionnaire (SSQ-R)

Child Attention Profile (CAP)

6–12