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Details
Purpose
Assesses cognitive strengths and weaknesses in children with brain injury
Authors
Gillian Hotz, PhD, Nancy Helm-Estabrooks, ScD, CCC-SLP, Nickola Wolf Nelson, PhD, CCC-SLP, and Elena Plante, PhD
Administration Formats
Additional Details
Assess Children Recovering from Brain Injury and Identify Strengths and Weaknesses
Designed for use with children ages 6-16 years recovering from brain injury, the PTBI is the only criterion-referenced, standardized test that assesses the skills children need to return to school and function in the general education curriculum.
- Helps you identify strengths and weaknesses. Assesses children’s curriculum-relevant neurocognitive, language, and literacy abilities so speech-language pathologists and other clinicians can identify strengths and weaknesses and implement effective interventions.
- Can be used to track improvement. Monitors functional changes, tracks recovery patterns over time, and guides decision making related to school reintegration.
- Comprehensive. Ten subtests require the examinee to employ tasks such as orientation, following commands, word fluency, digit span, naming, story retelling, and more.
- Rigorously tested. Cutting-edge item-response theory (IRT) analysis and traditional test development methods yielded strong evidence of reliability and validity. The PTBI was field tested at trauma and rehab centers and clinics across the country.
- Focuses on areas critical to school success. The skills of listening, speaking, reading, writing, gesturing, working memory, and problem solving are all addressed.
- Easy to complete. The 30-minute testing time won’t overburden children who are likely to be fatigued or who have attention issues.
- Useful any time during the recovery process. Helps assess abilities in the acute phases and monitor progress on an ongoing basis.
- Easy to administer and score. Forms include concise, specific instructions for accurate use of the PTBI.
