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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.
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Domain:
Developmental history
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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
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Domain:
Adaptive behavior skills and social/emotional functioning
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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).
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Domain:
General intellectual functioning and specific cognitive processes
and skills
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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).
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Domain:
Academic knowledge and skills
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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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