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