Specific Learning Disabilities and Difficulties in Children and Adolescents Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Part I History and Tradition
- Part II Alternative Cognitive Approaches to Learning Disabilities Assessment and Remediation
- 3 Application of the Woodcock—Johnson Tests of Cognitive Ability—Revised to the diagnosis of learning disabilities
- 4 The Kaufman tests — K-ABC and KAIT
- 5 Using the Cognitive Assessment System (CAS) with learning-disabled children
- 6 Application of the Differential Ability Scales (DAS) and British Ability Scales, Second Edition (BAS II), for the assessment of learning disabilities
- 7 Is dynamic assessment compatible with the psychometric model?
- 8 Multi-perspective, clinical—educational assessments of language disorders
- Part III Neuropsychological Approaches to Learning Disabilities Assessment and Remediation
- Part IV Integration and Summation
- Index
4 - The Kaufman tests — K-ABC and KAIT
from Part II - Alternative Cognitive Approaches to Learning Disabilities Assessment and Remediation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Part I History and Tradition
- Part II Alternative Cognitive Approaches to Learning Disabilities Assessment and Remediation
- 3 Application of the Woodcock—Johnson Tests of Cognitive Ability—Revised to the diagnosis of learning disabilities
- 4 The Kaufman tests — K-ABC and KAIT
- 5 Using the Cognitive Assessment System (CAS) with learning-disabled children
- 6 Application of the Differential Ability Scales (DAS) and British Ability Scales, Second Edition (BAS II), for the assessment of learning disabilities
- 7 Is dynamic assessment compatible with the psychometric model?
- 8 Multi-perspective, clinical—educational assessments of language disorders
- Part III Neuropsychological Approaches to Learning Disabilities Assessment and Remediation
- Part IV Integration and Summation
- Index
Summary
This chapter provides a context in which to understand how two instruments developed by Alan and Nadeen Kaufman may be utilized in the diagnosis and treatment of learning disabilities. The theoretical underpinnings of both of the measures are described, as well as the process of their development and standardization. To clarify how these instruments may be applied to the diagnosis and treatment of learning disabilities, case studies are presented. The Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC, Kaufman & Kaufman, 1983) and the Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test (KAIT; Kaufman & Kaufman, 1993) are the two featured intelligence tests.
History, development, and goals of the K-ABC and KAIT
In development of their two tests of intelligence, the K-ABC and the KAIT, the Kaufmans stepped away from the common conception of intelligence as an overall global entity (known as g). Both of the batteries were developed with the intention of improving upon existing individually administered tests of intelligence. Unlike the Wechsler tests, both the K-ABC and the KAIT were developed on the basis of neuropsychological theories and theories of cognitive psychology, as well as on the basis of available research.
K-ABC theory and development
The K-ABC is based on a theory of sequential and simultaneous information processing.
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- Specific Learning Disabilities and Difficulties in Children and AdolescentsPsychological Assessment and Evaluation, pp. 97 - 140Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001
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