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Mental Retardation : Tests

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If mental retardation is suspected, a comprehensive physical examination and medical history should be done immediately to discover any organic cause of symptoms. Such conditions as hyperthyroidism and PKU are treatable.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
If mental retardation is suspected, a comprehensive physical examination and medical history should be done immediately to discover any organic cause of symptoms. Conditions such as hyperthyroidism and PKU are treatable.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
If mental retardation is suspected, a comprehensive physical examination and medical history should be done immediately to discover any organic cause of symptoms. Such conditions as hyperthyroidism and PKU are treatable.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
A complete medical, family, social, and educational history is compiled from existing medical and school records (if applicable) and from interviews with parents. Children are given intelligence tests to measure their learning abilities and intel...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
During a physical examination, a health care provider studies a patient''s body to determine the presence or absence of physical problems.
Source:ADAM
Date:February 23, 2009
Intelligence quotient(IQ) tests are a series of assessments used to determine the general intelligence of an individual in relation to other people the same age.Many IQ tests are used today, and whether they measure actual intelligence or simply c...
Source:ADAM
Date:December 1, 2008
Pediatric Physical Therapy 11, no. 4(Winter 1999): 198-204.Levine, Kristin J."The Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency: Usefulness for Assessing Writing Disorders."
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
The Lincoln-Oseretsky Motor Development Scale is an individually administered test that assesses the development of motor skills in children and adults. Areas covered include fine and gross motor skills, finger dexterity.and speed, and hand-eye co...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
The oldest and most influential intelligence test, devised in 1916 by Stanford psychologist Lewis Terman(1877-1956), using the 1908 Binet-Simon model. Although some of its concepts, such as mental age and intelligence quotient, are questioned by m...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
The Stanford-Binet intelligence scale is a standardized test that assesses intelligence and cognitive abilities in children and adults aged two to 23.The Stanford-Binet intelligence scale is used as a tool in school placement, in determining the p...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Developed by C. Keith Conners, Ph.D., the Conners'' Rating Scales-Revised(CRS-R) are paper and pencil screening questionnaires designed to be completed by parents and teachers to assist in evaluating children for attention-deficit/hyperactivity dis...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, often abbreviated as WISC, is an individually administered measure of intelligence intended for children aged six years to 16 years and 11 months.The WISC is designed to measure human intelligence as r...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
The developmental norm used to express a child''s physical, behavioral, and language development.The developmental quotient is a norm used to express aspects of a child''s development as measured by the Gesell Development Schedules. These tests were...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
The Bayley Scales of Infant Development(BSID) measure the mental and motor development and test the behavior of infants from one to 42 months of age.The BSID are used to describe the current developmental functioning of infants and to assist in di...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
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