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Use of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test with low‐functioning autistic children
Author(s) -
Levy Stine
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6807(19820108)19:1<24::aid-pits2310190105>3.0.co;2-0
Subject(s) - peabody picture vocabulary test , psychology , developmental psychology , vocabulary , test (biology) , affect (linguistics) , raw score , autism , cognition , communication , linguistics , statistics , psychiatry , paleontology , philosophy , raw data , mathematics , biology
The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (Dunn, 1965) was adapted to facilitate administration to low‐functioning autistic children who do not have a pointing response. By cutting the plates into individual pictures, children can respond by giving the examiner the target picture. Ten autistic and 10 preschool‐aged children were given both the standard form (Form A) and the adapted form (Form C) by the same examiner less than one week apart. Several t‐tests were calculated to test the hypotheses that the adaptation would not affect raw scores of normal, preschool‐aged children; yet lowfunctioning autistic children would score significantly better on the adapted version. It was concluded that the two forms of the PPVT are equivalent forms when a pointing response exists, and it is therefore valid to use the published norms for the adapted version.