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Tests and Instruments for a Full Psychological Assessment
Please note: this catalog of tests and clinical procedures is designed for children ages 6 to 18. The selection of instruments from the list below will depend on your child's age and referral issues.

Domain: Developmental history

1. Review of the adoption-related legal, medical and educational documentation.
2. Review of the results of all previous evaluations.
3. Review of the history of remediation and the current Individual Educational Program.
4. Initial interview with the parents, using NEPSY-ll Developmental Child History

Domain: Adaptive behavior skills and social/emotional functioning

5. Clinical observations of behavior and social interaction during testing, using:
  • Quick Neurological Screening Test - Revised. (Screening tool for "soft" neurological signs in observable behavior).
  • 4-Digit Diagnostic Guide for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.(Standardized methodology for identification of FASD conditions with the computerized program of facial FASD features).
  • Checklist for Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD).
  • NEPSY-ll Guidelines and Behavior Observations Tables.
6. Interview with the parents and school personnel using:
  • The Devereux Behavior Rating Scale. (Psychopathology of behavior).
  • The Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist, Parent/Teacher Forms (ASEBA). (Inventory of behavior patterns associated with different behavior/emotional disorders).
  • The Behavior Rating Inventory for Executive Function - Parent/Teacher Forms. (Measure of self-regulation and goal-directed behavior).
  • The Conners' Parent Rating Scale - 3, Parent/Teacher Forms. (Comprehensive ADHD symptoms inventory).
  • Adaptive Behavior Assessment System - 2, Parent/Teacher Forms. (General adaptive behavior).
  • Developmental Assessment of Young Children (DAYC). (General adaptive behavior scale for pre-school children).
  • DSM-lV-TR Generic Checklist of Child Depression Disorder Symptoms.
  • The Childhood Autism Rating Scale.
  • The Temperament and Atypical Behavior Scale. (Inventory of childhood pathological behavior).
  • The Gillam Autism Rating Scale. (Symptoms of ASD).
  • The Gilliam Asperger's Disorder Scale. (Symptoms of Asperger's Syndrome).
  • Pervasive Developmental Disorder - Behavior Inventory, Parent/Teacher Rating Form. (Comprehensive qualitative/quantitative rated catalog of PDD symptoms).

7. Clinical interview with a child using:

  • Projective Questionnaire.
  • Human Figure Drawing Test and Draw-A-Person Questionnaire.
  • Thematic Apperception Test (selected cards).
  • Incomplete Sentences Test.
  • Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale, 2nd Edition (a self-report measure of anxiety).
  • Kovacs' Children Depression Inventories (a self-reported measure of depression in children)
  • The Beck Youth Inventories (a self-reporting scale of emotional and behavioral difficulties).
Domain: General intellectual functioning and specific cognitive processes and skills
    8.   Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test (UNIT). (Standardized test to determine intellectual potential without direct
          language involvement).
    9.   Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery lll, Tests of Cognitive Abilities (WJ-lll), Extended, Normative Update.
    10. NEPSY-ll (A developmental neuropsychological assessment).
    11. The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fourth Edition (WISC-lV), Integrated
    12. The Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test, Second Edition. (Standardized measure of visual/motor integration
          and grapho-motor skills).
    13. The Application of Cognitive Functions Scale (ASFC, Lidz/Jepsen, 2001) in a dynamic assessment format.
    14. Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule - ADOS Module 3 (semi-structured observation and testing procedure
          for autistic behavior).
    15. The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale: Fifth Edition.
    16. Woodcock-Munoz Language Survey - Revised. (A measure of cognitive/academic language).
    17. The Language Processing Test - 3. (Test of higher language-based functions).

Domain: Academic knowledge and skills

18. Woodcock-Johnson lll, Tests of Achievement, Extended, Normative Update. (Subtests relevant to instructional
     curriculum for the appropriate age and grade).
19. Brigance Diagnostic Inventory of Early Development, 2001 Revision. (Criterion-referenced inventory of
     pre-academic skills and knowledge, used as a non-standardized test).
20. Bracken School Readiness Assessment. (Basic Concepts).
21. Process Assessment of the Learners: The Battery for Reading and Writing (PAL-RW).
22. An estimation of academic skills according to the current country of origin curriculum for the 1st through 8th
     grades.
 
 

 

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Last update on January 12, 2012

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