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Validity of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children when employed with children with traumatic brain injury
Author(s) -
Donders Jacques
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(199203)48:2<225::aid-jclp2270480213>3.0.co;2-s
Subject(s) - psychology , traumatic brain injury , neuropsychology , wechsler intelligence scale for children , intelligence quotient , neuropsychological assessment , clinical psychology , neuropsychological test , audiology , developmental psychology , psychiatry , cognition , medicine
The K‐ABC and WISC‐R were administered to 43 children with traumatic brain injury. The amount of shared variance between standard score indices of these two tests ranged from 42% to 71%, depending on which scores were considered. Correlations with degree of cerebral impairment, as measured by length of coma, were slightly higher for WISC‐R IQ scores than for K‐ABC global scale scores. Performance on both the K‐ABC and the WISC‐R was affected by the presence or absence of ocular and/or motor deficits. It is concluded that the K‐ABC is not superior to the WISC‐R in sensitivity to cerebral impairment and that caution is needed when one is making neuropsychological interpretations on the basis of the K‐ABC.