Concordance of the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, second and third editions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Because of its centrality in the conceptualization of intellectual disability, reliable and valid measurement of adaptive behaviour is important to both research and clinical practice. The manual of the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, recently released in its third edition, provides limited reliability information obtained from a sample composed primarily of typically developing individuals. The goal of this study was to evaluate the concordance of the Vineland-3 with the Vineland-II in a sample more similar in ability level to those in which the Vineland is commonly used.

Methods

Both editions of the Vineland Interviews were conducted with a convenience sample of 106 parents/caregivers of individuals with neurodevelopmental disability, participating at two neu

SUBMITTER: Farmer C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6941197 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature