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Dupuis, Annie; Moon, Michael J.; Brian, Jessica; Georgiades, Stelios; Levy, Tomer; Anagnostou, Evdokia; Nicolson, Rob; Schachar, Russell; Crosbie, Jennifer – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
We examined the correlation between interviewer-administered Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale II (VABS-II) and the parent-rated Adaptive Behavior Assessment System II (ABAS-II) questionnaire in 352 participants (ages 1.5-20.8 years) with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to determine if ABAS could be used as a screen to reduce the number of VABS…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Adjustment (to Environment), Student Behavior, Autism
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Kang, Veronica Y.; Kim, Sunyoung – Journal of Early Intervention, 2023
Teaching vocabularies to young children is critical as vocabulary is related to long-term language, literacy, and academic skills. The current study used a multiple probe design to examine the effects of enhanced milieu teaching with book reading on the use of word approximations in four 2- to 4-year-old females with language delay. The first…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Word Frequency, Vocabulary Development, Story Reading
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Stirk, Steven; Field, Bryony; Black, Jessica – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2018
Background: The Learning Disability Screening Questionnaire (LDSQ) has been shown to have high sensitivity and specificity to identify those who are likely to meet intellectual disability diagnostic criteria (McKenzie, et al. [McKenzie K., 2015]). However, there is no independent research to date to support these findings. Materials and Methods:…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Questionnaires, Screening Tests, Diagnostic Tests
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Emam, Mahmoud Mohamed; Al-Sulaimani, Humaira; Omara, Ehab; Al-Nabhany, Ragaa – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2020
In Oman and elsewhere in Arab countries school professionals rely on measures that were developed in Western countries. Measures that assess adaptive behaviour (AB) that have been developed in Western cultures are argued to be culturally bound. Nevertheless, these measures are used elsewhere despite a paucity of data that examine their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Daily Living Skills, Student Behavior, Behavior Rating Scales
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Santos, Sofia; Morato, Pedro; Luckasson, Ruth – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2014
The adaptive behavior construct has gained prominent attention in human services over the last several years in Portugal, and its measurement has become an integral part of the assessment of populations with intellectual disability. In Portugal, diagnosis remains exclusively based on IQ measures, although some attention recently has been given to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Mental Retardation, Adjustment (to Environment)
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Fu, Chung-Pei; Chen, Kuan-Lin; Tseng, Mei-Hui; Chiang, Fu-Mei; Hsieh, Ching-Lin – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2012
The aim of this study was to examine the internal consistency, inter-respondent reliability, and convergent and divergent validity of the Psychoeducational Profile-third edition Caregiver Report (PEP3-CR) in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). We examined the internal consistency on 66 mothers of children with ASD who completed the…
Descriptors: Mothers, Autism, Performance Tests, Caregivers
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Garcia Alonso, Isabel; De La Fuente Anuncibay, Raquel; Fernandez Hawrylak, Maria – Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 2010
As there is a dearth of Spanish-language standardized scales that assess adaptive behavior in children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities (ID), the authors adapted one of the most widely used and studied scales of adaptive behavior in the U.S., the ABS-S:2 (Adaptive Behavior Scale-School, 2nd Edition), and validated it for use in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mental Retardation, Children, Adjustment (to Environment)
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Goldberg, Michael R.; Dill, Charles A.; Shin, Jin Y.; Nhan, Nguyen Viet – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
This study was conducted to examine an adaptation of the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale (VABS) [Sparrow, S. S., Balla, D. A., & Cicchetti, D. V. (1984). "The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales." Circle Pines, MN: America Guidance Service; Sparrow, S. S., Balla, D. A., & Cicchetti, D. V. (2005). "Vineland Adaptive Behavior…
Descriptors: Vietnamese People, Mental Retardation, Construct Validity, Translation