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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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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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Al-Ansari, Ahmed – Mental Retardation, 1993
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…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Behavior Rating Scales, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
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Wilson, Carlene J.; Haskell, Simon H. – Australia and New Zealand Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 1988
The Residential Checklist portion of the Adaptive Functioning Index was evaluated with 218 individuals with mental retardation in a large Australian residential facility, and found to be both valid and reliable for rating the intellectual and behavioral functioning of individuals, despite some inconsistency in the more subjectively rated measures.…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Behavior Development, Foreign Countries, Intellectual Development
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Shek, Daniel T. L.; Tsang, Sandra K. M.; Lam, Lorinda L.; Tang, Florence L. Y.; Cheung, Penita M. P. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2005
The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the Psycho-educational Profile-Revised (PEP-R). The Chinese PEP-R (CPEP-R) was administered to 63 preschool children with symptoms of autistic disorder recruited from special child-care centers in Hong Kong. Results showed that the scales of the CPEP-R…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Preschool Children, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Reliability