Childhood
Assessments
Assessments
Children who score 2+ standard deviations below the mean on childhood assessments are more likely to have this.
An intellectual disability
How much expertise is needed to administer a good preschool screening instrument?
Minimal expertise
This instrument transitioned from using the socioeconomic status of parents, to direct observation of the child’s environment to measure the quality/quantity of stimulation and support for cognitive/social/emotional development available at home.
Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) inventory
This language is used by more than one million Americans who are deaf or sufficiently hard of hearing.
American Sign Language (ASL)
What does NBAS stand for?
Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale
What is the purpose of screening for school readiness?
To identify at-risk children
Which populations are appropriate for use of non-language tests?
Folks who: do not speak English, have a speech impairment, and weak language skills
The Inventory for Client & Agency Planning (ICAP) provides overall service scores between 0-100 to assess this type of disability.
Developmental Disability
Experts in the field agree that a GCA score is essentially the same as this.
An IQ score
What quick and efficient test detects developmental problems or giftedness?
Dial-III
What is the “bill of rights” for folks with disabilities?
It is illegal to discriminate against someone due to disability in the realm of employment.
This test is used to obtain a rapid measure of listening vocabulary with persons who are deaf or who have a neurological or speech impairment.
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-IV (PPVT-4)
This test does NOT yield one overall score (like an IQ score), but instead generates a profile of scores useful in infant assessment and diagnosis.
The Bayley-III
What screening tool is the most widely known and researched for pediatric screening in the USA, and has excellent reliability/validity?
Denver II
This test has been shown to NOT effectively identify children with learning or developmental disabilities.
Human Figure Drawing test
The Scales of Independent Behavior-Revised (SIB-R) is an instrument that measures intellectual disability across subscales and clusters focusing on four skills: motor, social and communication, personal living, and this other type of living.
Community Living Skills
Its purpose is to provide a structured format for describing a wide range of behaviors, including noncompliance, known to affect test performance.
The Test Observation Checklist (TOC)
What are two qualities of a good preschool screening instrument?
Could be any of the following: test-retest reliability (.70), concurrent validity (.70), sensitivity and specificity (.70), it is culturally valid, test time is 30 min or less.
This test avoids the confounding assessment of intelligence with English language proficiency by its complete elimination of verbal instructions.
Leiter International Performance Scale-Revised (Leiter-R)
Instead of the previous terminology for disability, the new language describing the four levels of needed supports focuses on rehabilitation needs of clients including intermittent, limited, extensive, and this fourth category.
Pervasive