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Domain:
Developmental history
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1. Structured
interview with adoptive parents via the ANSWER SYSTEM (Comprehensive
Parent Questionnaire for Developmental,
Behavioral, and Health Assessment of the Child). 2.
Review of the original adoption-related documentation
and results of all previous evaluations.
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Domain:
Adaptive behavior and social/emotional functioning
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3. Clinical Interview,
Part l: Mental Status Examination. 4. Clinical
Interview, Part ll: projective techniques, including drawings,
questionnaires, incomplete sentences test, and TAT (Thematic
Apperception Test). 5. The Achenbach Child Behavior
Checklist (ages 4-18). 6. The Devereux Behavior
Rating Scale, School Form. 7. The Hyperactive Behavior
Rating Scale-Revised Conners' Questionnaires for Parents
and Teachers. 8. The Adaptive Behavior Assessment
System. 9. The Childhood Autism Rating Scale. 10.
The Temperament and Atypical Behavior Scale. 11. The
Kovacs Children's Depression Inventory. 12. The Beck
Youth Inventories. 13. The Gillam Autism Rating Scale
and the Gilliam Asperger Disorder Scale.
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Domain:
Cognitive processing/skills and overall intellectual functioning
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14. The Universal Nonverbal
Intelligence Test. 15. The Wechsler Intelligence Scale
for Children - lV 16. The Stanford-Binet Intelligence
Scale: Fifth Edition. 17. The Woodcock-Johnson lll, Tests
of Cognitive Ability. 18. The Application of Cognitive
Functions Scale (ASFC, Lidz/Jepsen, 2001) in a dynamic assessment
format.
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Domain:
Attention and Executive Function, Auditory and Visual Processing
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19. Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological
Battery Screening Test for Children. 20. The Behavior
Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF). 21. The
Conners' Parent Rating Scale - Revised (L). 22. NEPSY
- a developmental neuropsychological assessment - selected
tests. 23. The Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test and Recall.
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Domain:
Language skills
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24. The Woodcock-Munoz
Language Survey, English form. 25. The Bilingual Verbal
Ability Test (BVAT). 26. The Language Processing Test. 27.
An informal evaluation of the communicative fluency/pragmatics
and reasoning/ comprehension in the Russian language
using Token Test for Children, level ll and lV.
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Domain:
Academic knowledge and skills
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28. The Woodcock-Johnson
lll, Tests of Achievement. 29. The Brigance Diagnostic
Inventory of Early Development and Basic Skills. 30.
The Brigance Kindergarten Pupil Data K & 1 Screen Sheet. 31.
The Kaufman Survey of Early Academic and Language Skills
(K-SEALS). 32. The Bracken School Readiness Assessment
(Basic Concepts. 33. The Process Assessment of the Learners:
The Battery for Reading and Writing (PAL-RW). 34. An
estimation of academic skills according to the current Russian
curriculum for the 1st through 8th grades, based on
the Russian Federation officially certified instructional
material, published by Olma Press, Moscow 2003.
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