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DIAGNOSIS AREA
Clinical methods
Test category
B2 – for psychologists; other professionals only after general psychometric training and test training
AVAILABLE TEST TYPES
paper-pencile-tests
ABAS-3
Adaptive Behavior Assessment System. Third Edition
DIAGNOSIS AREA
Clinical methods
Test category
B2 – for psychologists; other professionals only after general psychometric training and test training
AUTHORS
Patti L. Harrison, Thomas Oakland
POLISH ADAPTATION
Wojciech Otrębski (team coordinator), Ewa Domagała-Zyśk, Katarzyna Rutkowska, Agnieszka Sudoł, Grzegorz Wiącek (2019)
AGE
Children and adolescents aged 0–20
PROCEDURE
Individual administration, no time limit, approx. 25 minutes
ESPECIALLY USEFUL FOR
Psychologists, educators, special educators, occupational therapists
Adaptive Behavior Assessment System is a tool which allows to assess adaptive behaviors necessary for effective and independent functioning within a society. The ABAS-3 is a first tool available on the Polish market designed specifically to assess adaptive behaviors in children and adolescents. It is, above all, an excellent tool to measure the level of social adaptation.
Please note: All of our tests are published in Polish. There are not available other language versions of our tools. Contact us to buy this product.
Adaptive Behavior Assessment System is a tool which allows to assess adaptive behaviors necessary for effective and independent functioning within a society. The questionnaire includes 5 versions: two for parents and two for teachers (ages 0–5 and 5–20) as well as the self-rating version for persons aged 16–20.
Each version consists of 10 scales measuring various aspects of adaprive behavior: Communication, Social life, Functional skills, Home life, School life, Health and security, Leisure, Self-service, Self-direction, Socialization, Motorics (up to the age of 5) and Work (from the age of 16).
Scores in the three spheres of adaptive founctioning:
- cognitive sphere,
- social sphere,
- practical sphere
are calculated, as well as the General Adaptation Index.
The ABAS-3 also includes the Intervention Plan consisting of the recommended rehabilitation and training activities fitting all the items included in the assessment sheets. The Plan is of much help when working with persons having adaptive disorders.
Materials:
- Kit (original manual, manual with Polish normalization, Intervention Plan, answer sheets: Adult, aged 16–20, Parent/statutory guardian, aged 0–5, Parent/statutory guardian, aged 5–20, Teacher, aged 2–5, Teacher, aged 5–20, Comparison of results, aged 2–5, Comparison of results, aged 5–20)
- Answer sheets – Adult, aged 16–20 (10 copies)
- Answer sheets – Parent/statutory guardian, aged 0–5 (10 copies)
- Answer sheets – Parent/statutory guardian, aged 5–20 (10 copies)
- Answer sheets – Teacher, aged 2–5 (10 copies)
- Answer sheets – Teacher, aged 5–20 (10 copies)
- Answer sheets – Comparison of results, aged 2–5 (10 copies)
- Answer sheets – Comparison of results, aged 5–20 (10 copies)
- Original manual
- Manual with Polish normalization
- Manual: Intervention Plan
The ABAS-3 is a first tool available on the Polish market designed specifically to assess adaptive behaviors in children and adolescents. It is, above all, an excellent tool to measure the level of social adptation which is the second criterion – besides the level of intellectual functioning – used in the intellectual disability diagnosis. Moreover, the ABAS-3 can be appllied to:
- help diagnose and specify development and behavior disorders,
- diagnose functional limitations in children and adolescents with disorders and disabilities,
- certify the necessity on the part of examinee to receive additional forms of assistance,
- plan and monitor therapies or trainings,
- evaluate therapeutic programs or therapeutic effectiveness studies.
Reliability
Very high internal consistencies of the General Adptation Index, of the scores on scales and in spheres. Confirmed high internal stability of the tool as well as high inter-rater agreement.
Validity
In the Polish standardization study children from the general sample were compared to children from various clinical groups, including those with minor and moderate intellectual disabilities, ADHD, autism spectrum disorders and hearing loss. Discriminatory validity of the tool was confirmed – scores of clinically diagnosed children differed significantly from those in the general sample group.
Norms
Separate norms for several age groups for each version based on approx. 1672 administered questionnaires.
The test is also available as an online examination on the Epsilon Platform and as an option for entering and calculating scores from the paper-and-pencil version on the Epsilon Platform.
Uprawnienia do zakupu i stosowania danego testu zależą od jego kategorii, wyznaczonej zgodnie z kategoryzacją Komisji do Spraw Testów Psychologicznych działającej z ramienia Polskiego Towarzystwa Psychologicznego.
ABAS-3 jest narzędziem kategorii B2.
B2 – testy dla psychologów; dla innych specjalistów po ukończonym ogólnym szkoleniu z psychometrii zakończonym egzaminem, a następnie szkolenia z zakresu konkretnego testu (lub grupy podobnych testów)
Wymagane kwalifikacje:
- Ukończone studia magisterskie z psychologii – wymagane przedłożenie kopii dyplomu
LUB
- Ukończone dowolne studia wyższe magisterskie – wymagane przedłożenie kopii dyplomu
- ORAZ posiadanie certyfikatu ukończenia szkolenia i zaliczenia egzaminu z psychometrii wg programu zaakceptowanego przez PTP
- ORAZ ukończone szkolenie z zakresu konkretnego testu (lub grupy podobnych testów) – wymagane przedłożenie certyfikatu ukończenia szkolenia
- ORAZ praca z ludźmi w obszarze zawodowym, który stanowi uzasadnienie dla wyboru i stosowania narzędzia.