Enhance Your Adaptive Behavior Evaluations

Adaptive behavior evaluations are a critical step in selecting the most effective interventions, training and treatments for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, autism, and other types of developmental, learning, social–behavioral, and health problems.

Enhance your Adaptive Behavior Evaluations

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Examples of Adaptive Behaviors

 

Adaptive behavior is defined as practical, everyday skills needed to function and meet the demands of one’s environments. 

 

Conceptual Skills

Problem-solving

Communication

Academics

Self-direction 

Money management 

Time management

 

Social Skills 

Interpersonal skills

Gullibility and naiveté

Social problem-solving 

 

Practical Skills 

Self-care

Domestic skills

Work skill

Safety

Health care

 

Early Interventions Matter

 

For individuals with intellectual disabilities, autism, and other types of developmental, learning, social–behavioral, and health problems, early and accurate adaptive behavior evaluation sets them up to receive the most effective interventions, training and treatments.

 

How to Enhance your Adaptive ​Behavior Evaluations

 

  1. Emphasize comprehensive adaptive behavior evaluations.​
  2. Focus on assessment across multiple domains, environments, methods, and sources of information.​
  3. Do not use a single procedure as the sole criterion for a diagnosis, classification, or eligibility for services.
  4. Interpret why there is and why there is not convergence of information across intellectual, adaptive behavior, academic, and other types of evaluation.
  5. Explore factors that impact a person’s scores and evaluate how the factors relate to validity of the assessment results.​
  6. Evaluate advantages and limitations of behavior rating scales as part of interpretation and decision-making. 
  7. Stress adaptive skill improvement as an important intervention and treatment goal. ​
  8. Incorporate comprehensive adaptive behavior assessment into data collection and interventions for all individuals.

 

The Adaptive Behavior Assessment System, 3rd Edition (ABAS-3) provides a complete assessment of adaptive skills across an individual’s life span. It is available as a teacher or parent rating scale for ages birth through 21 years, and as self-report form for adults ages 16 and up. It is particularly useful for evaluating those with developmental delays, autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, learning disabilities, neuropsychological disorders, and sensory or physical impairments. 

 

Learn More: Adaptive Behavior Assessment System, 3rd Edition (ABAS-3; Harrison & Oakland, 2015)