TESTS: Aptitude & Developmental Activities

Below are products utilized in testing and monitoring
Aptitude & Developmental Activities.
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Products listed in our Catalog under "Aptitude & Developmental Activities":

Detroit Tests of Learning Aptitude, Fourth Edition [DTLA-4]
Detroit Tests of Learning Aptitude – Adult, Second Edition [DTLA-A]
Detroit Tests of Learning Aptitude - Primary, Second Edition [DTLA-P:2]
Developmental Activities Screening Inventory (DASI-II)
Developmental Assessment of Young Children (DAYC)
Evaluating Acquired Skills in Communication-Revised (EASIC-R)
Great Beginnings™ for Early Language Learning
Kaufman Functional Academic Skills Test [K-FAST]
Test of Memory and Learning [TOMAL]

Detroit Tests of Learning Aptitude, Fourth Edition [DTLA-4]
Donald D. Hammill

Ages: 6-0 Through 17-0
Testing Time: 40 Minutes – 2 Hours

The DTLA-4 is the test of choice for professionals interested in a thorough investigation of a person’s cognitive functions. The test not only measures basic abilities, but also shows the effects of language, attention, and motor abilities on test performance. Results from the 10 subtests can be combined to form 16 composites that measure both general intelligence and discrete ability areas.

The DTLA-4 was normed on 1,350 students residing in 37 states. The demographic characteristics of the normative sample are representative of the US population as a whole with regard to gender, race, ethnicity, urban/rural residence, family income, educational attainment of parents, and geographic distribution. Norms are stratified by age. The test provides percentiles, standard scores (subtest: M=10; SD=3, composite/quotients: M=100; SD=15), and age equivalents. Internal consistency reliability coefficients for the DTLA-4 generally exceed .80 for the subtests and .90 for the composites. Test-retest coefficients range from .71 to .96 for the subtests, those for the composites all exceed .90, and scorer reliability coefficients were all in the .90s.

New to the DTLA include studies showing the absence of gender and racial bias, new validity studies, and new, more appealing, color pictures in the picture book.

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Detroit Tests of Learning Aptitude – Adult, Second Edition [DTLA-A]
Donald D. Hammill and Brian R. Bryant

Ages: 16-0 Through 79-0
Testing Time: 1.5 – 2.5 Hours

DTLA-A includes 12 subtests and 16 composites that measure both general intelligence and discrete ability areas, permits interpretation in terms of current theories of intellect and behaviour domains, and provides an index of optimal-level performance.

The test was normed on more than 1,000 adults from more than 20 states whose characteristics correspond to those of the 1990 census data relative to gender, race, geographic region, ethnicity, and urban/rural residence. Internal consistency reliability of all scores approximates .90 at all ages and stability reliability of all scores approximates .80 at all ages.

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Detroit Tests of Learning Aptitude - Primary, Second Edition [DTLA-P:3]
Donald D. Hammill and Brian R. Bryant

Ages: 3-0 Through 9-11
Testing Time: 15 – 45 Minutes

DTLA-P:3 is particularly useful with low-functioning school-aged children. The test includes 100 items from which six subtests and one total score are derived that measure important cognitive areas including language, attention, and motor abilities.

DTLA-P:3  Significant improvement over the previous editions have been made:

Complete Kit Includes: Examiner’s Manual, Picture Book, 25 Profile/Examiner Record Forms, and 25 Response Forms, all in a sturdy storage box. (B007-A) $295.00
Individual Components:
B007-J	Examiner's Manual	$85
B007-K	Picture Book	$95
B007-L	Profile/Examiner Forms (25)	$76
B007-M	Response Forms (25)	$46

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Developmental Activities Screening Inventory (DASI-II)

The Developmental Activities Screening Inventory-II (DASI-II) is a revised edition of the popular Developmental Activities Screening Inventory (DASI).

DASI-II is designed to provide early detection of developmental disabilities in children functioning between the ages of birth and 60 months, although the lowest scorable age is 1 month. This informal, individualized test can be easily administered by classroom teachers. Developmental skills assessed by DASI-II cover 15 skills categories ranging from sensory intactness, means-end relationships, and causality to memory, seriation, and reasoning. A matrix is provided for identifying the concepts tapped by each test item. Instructions are given either verbally or visually.

Complete DASI-II Kit includes: Examiner’s Manual, 50 Record Forms, 37 Picture Cards, 5 Set-Configuration Cards, two pairs of Numeral Cards, three pairs of Word Cards, and 4 Shape Cards, all in a sturdy storage box - 1984. (B0501) $184.00
Individual Components:

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Developmental Assessment of Young Children (DAYC)
Judith K. Voress, Taddy Maddox

Ages: Birth through 5
Testing Time: 10 to 20 minutes
Administration: Individual

Use the DAYC to identify children birth through 5-11 with possible delays in the domains of cognition, communication, socialemotional development, physical development, and adaptive behavior. You’ll have five subtests (one for each of the above domains) that you can administer separately or as a comprehensive battery to individual children in about 10 to 20 minutes. You will be able to identify infants and young children who may benefit from early intervention.

Each of the five domains this test measures reflects an area mandated for assessment and intervention in IDEA for young children. Tailor your assessment to your clients’ needs by assessing any combination of these domains. Involve parents and caregivers by interviewing them as part of the assessment process. The DAYC format allows you to obtain information about a child’s abilities through observation, interview of caregivers, and direct assessment. The DAYC may also be used in arena assessment so that each discipline can use the evaluation tool independently.

The DAYC was normed on a national sample of 1,269 individuals, broken into 23 age groups. Characteristics of the normative sample approximate the 1996 census. The reliability of the DAYC has been studied, and evidence relating to content-sampling and testretest time sampling reliability is provided. Reliability coefficients range from .90 to .99. Standard Error of Measure (SEM) ranges from 1.5 to 4.74, with the majority smaller than 3.0. Reliabilities for children identified as environmentally at-risk and biologically at-risk are .98 and .99.

Compared to Battelle Screening, criterion-referenced validity, construct-validity, and content-description validity are provided. Using the DAYC, you will obtain standard scores, percentile scores, and age equivalents. The test also gives you a General Development Quotient (GDQ) if all 5 subtests are completed, but all subtests can be used independently for each domain.

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Evaluating Acquired Skills in Communication-Revised (EASIC-R)

Ages: 3 months through 6 years
Testing Time: 15 to 30 minutes
Administration: Individual

Evaluating Acquired Skills in Communication (EASIC) is an inventory that was developed to measure spoken language (receptive and expressive) of children with autism aged 3 months to 6 years. It was field-tested on 200 individuals with autism over a 6 year period. Although the materials were developed for persons with autism, the EASIC has also been used successfully with all kinds of people who have developmental language delays.

The EASIC assesses semantics, syntax, morphology, and pragmatics communication skills at five levels:

· Pre-Language—before meaningful speech
· Receptive I—understanding simple noun labels, action verbs, and basic concepts
· Expressive I —emerging modes of communication
· Receptive II—understanding more complex language functions
· Expressive II—using a more complex level of communication

Once the assessment is completed, the EASIC's results can be displayed on the Skills Profile. This form provides space for displaying the results from up to five assessments, taken over time, and provides a means for showing the changes that have occurred from one testing to the next. In addition, the results can be portrayed on the Developmental Age Chart, where communication skills are arranged in easy to difficult order along with age ranges at which children normally acquire each described skill. Finally, 142 Goals and Objectives cards are provided. These cards are directly tied to the skills described in the inventory and can be used in the development of intervention plans.

TARGET GROUP: 3 months-8 years

Complete EASIC-R Kit includes: Manual, 312-page stimulus picture test book, 53 supplementary picture cards, 142 goal-and-objective file cards, 5 copies of each test booklet, 5 copies of each skill profile, storage box. (B9710) $306.00
Individual Components:

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Great Beginnings™ for Early Language Learning
Linda Levine

Great Beginnings is ideal for speech-language clinicians and teachers who specialize in young children who have delays in language, speech, and cognition. Six individual sets of cards and manipulatives focus on main areas of language development:

Nouns 1 and Nouns 2 each include 40 full-color 6" x 8" photographs that appeal to very young children. Nouns 1 features food and animals; Nouns 2 features toys and body parts. With these colorful cards you can teach new vocabulary, attention to pictures, basic categories, and functions of objects.

Concepts features 57 full-color, 6" x 8" photographs, plus more than 35 manipulatives, including:

Use the manipulatives and photos to target object-to-picture matching skills and to introduce and reinforce concepts such as color, number, size, same/different, categorization, prepositions, and associations. They¹re more effective with toddlers than structured drill activities that just use pictures. You can also use the manipulatives with other Great Beginnings sets as well, in a variety of structured and unstructured activities.

Association depicts 20 nouns in a variety of ways. Each noun is represented in a full-color photograph, plus one color illustration and one black-and-white drawing - 60 6" x 8" cards in all! Each picture depicts the noun in a slightly different way to help children move from concrete to abstract thinking.

Verbs has cards that depict 15 actions, each presented twice-once by a boy and once by a girl. You can aid in generalizing verb concepts and introduce gender distinctions. You get a total of 30 full-color, 8" x 10" cards.

Prepositions provides practice for these eight early-developing prepositions‹in, under, out, in front of, on, in back of (behind), off, next to (beside). The 24 full-color, 8" x 10" photographs will aid in generalizing the concept of location, help you introduce gender and pronoun distinctions, and drill the use of prepositions.


TARGET GROUP: 2 1/2-4 years

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Test of Memory and Learning [TOMAL]
Cecil R. Reynolds and Erin D. Bigler

Ages: 5-0 Through 19-0
Testing Time: Less Than 45 Minutes

The TOMAL includes 10 regular subtests and four supplementary subtests that evaluate general and specific memory functions. The TOMAL is helpful to examiners when evaluating children or adolescents referred for learning disabilities, traumatic brain injury, neurological diseases, serious emotional disturbance, and ADHD. The 10 core and 4 supplemental subtests provide information on specific and general aspects of memory and are used to derive the Core Indexes and Supplementary Indexes.

The test was normed on more than 1,000 children and adolescents ages 5-0 through 19-11, from 17 states representing all major regions of the United States and are representative of the population with regards to gender, age, ethnicity, urban/rural residence, and geographic distribution. Scores produced by the TOMAL include standardized or scaled scores (subtest: M=10; SD=3, composites: M=100; SD=15), and percentiles. Reliability estimates are uniformly high, with all composite and some subtest reliability values falling in the .90s and nearly all exceeding .80. Test-retest coefficients are all above .70 for the subtests, with most above .80, and for the composite indexes all values exceed .80.

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