The study assessed the degree to which rehabilitation staff rate severity of maladaptive behaviors on the Americal Association on Mental Deficiency Adaptive Behavior Scale and developed a socially validated revision of the scoring system to allow more accurate classification of mentally retarded individuals as having mild, moderate, or severe…

The strengths of the scales were concentrated in the areas of domain and construct validity, weaknesses in the areas of discriminant validity, interobserver reliability, and decision-making reliability. (DB)

The article describes and critiques two scales (the Vineland Social Maturity Scale and the American Association of Mental Deficiency's Adaptive Behavior Scale - Public School Version) for assessing the adaptive behavior of mentally retarded children. (PHR)

A methodology was described for operationalizing the terms "occasionally" and "frequently" on the Maladaptive Behavior Scale developed from the American Association of Mental Deficiency Adaptive Behavior Scale. Numerical definitions were devised from modal ratings of staff members of 28 rehabilitation agencies. (Author/DB)

The validity of the Adaptive Behavior Scale (ABS) for placement purposes was estimated using as Ss 95 formerly institutionalized retarded persons, 97 institutional residents referred for discharge, and 178 institutional residents. Results suggest that knowledge of an individual's ABS scores would enable a test user to make valid estimates of group…

Forty-five graduate students in special education were asked to rate the items in the violent and destructive behavior domain from part two of the AAMD (American Association of Mental Deficiencies) Adaptive Behavior Scale on a 1 (not very severe) to 4 (extremely severe) scale. (Author/PHR)

The Hand Test and the maladaptive behavior scale of the Adaptive Behavior Scale (ABS) were administered to 78 institutionalized mentally retarded. Significant correlations were found between two purported Hand Test indicators of destructive acting-out behavior and observed violent behavior. (MH)

The AAMD (American Association on Mental Deficiency) Adaptive Behavior Scale: Public School Version was subjected to a normative and validation study using 291 regular and special education students (8, 10, and 12 years old). (Author/SBH)

Developmental growth of residents of a university operated institution was studied over an eight-year period of time. Long-term residents received decreasing benefits over time, although shorter term residents evidenced only linear growth. The ideal duration of services was estimated as approximately three to four years. (Author)

Evaluations were made of 46 mentally retarded residents (mean age=18.32 years) in a central Ohio state institution using part one of the American Association on Mental Deficiency's Adaptive Behavior Scale. A significant overall setting effect was not revealed in the multivariate analysis of variance for repeated measures. (Author)

This study assessed the degree of agreement between teacher report and an adapted Adaptive Behavior Scale in the identification of mental retardation and associated learning difficulties in 257 young Bahraini school children. Findings indicated that the instrument is sensitive in identification of children with mental retardation and exhibits high…

Background: Problems associated with psychiatric diagnoses could be minimized by identifying behavioural clusters of specific psychiatric disorders. Methods: Sixty persons with intellectual disability (ID) and behavioural problems, aged 12?55 years, were assessed with standardized Indian tools for intelligence and adaptive behaviour. Clinical…