- Bayley Scale of Infant Development:
- Diagnose Developmental Delays , Intelligence and Measures physical, motor, sensory, and cognitive development” (Logsdon, 2009)
- Suitable for children in the age group of 1-42 months.
- It is a standardized norm referenced test
- Content coverage includes-mental scale, motor scale and behavior rating scale.
- The scale is designed to be presented with a parent present.
- Items are playful and enjoyable for both child and experienced assessor.
- It also contains items designed to identify young children at risk for developmental delay.
- Wechsler preschool & primary scale of intelligence – Revised(WPPSI-R)
- It has subtests like object assembly, information, geometric design, comprehension,, block design, arithmetic, mazes, vocabulary, picture completion, similarities, animal pegs and sentences.
- Assessment is believed to reflect the different aspects of intelligence and provide standardized scores to indicate intellectual functioning.
- Battelle Developmental Inventory:
- It is designed for children from birth to 8 years.
- It assesses domains like cognition, motor, self help, language and social skills.
- Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale:
- It is suitable for children from 2years to 23 years.
- It measures general intelligence.
- It focuses on verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, visual reasoning and short term memory.
- Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence(WPPSI-R)
- It is suitable for children from 4.5 years to 6 years.
- It assesses language and perception.
- Mccarthy Scales of Children’s Abilities:
- It is suitable for children from 2.5- 8.5 years.
- It evaluates the child’s general intelligence.
- It adentifies strengths and weaknesses in several ability areas.
- Areas include verbal, perceptual, quantitqative,memory, motor and general cognitive skills.
- AGC Early Screening Profile:
- It is devised by Harrisonet et al. in 1990.
- It is used as a comprehensive screening tool for children of 2-6-11 years.
- It consists of a) items that are administered directly to the child and b) surveys that are completed by parents, teachers or both.
- The components of the test include
- Cognitive / language profile : direct testing of child, it takes 5-15 minutes and the subscales include visual discrimination, logical relations and language subscale and basic school skills.
- Motor profile
- Self help/social profile
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