Advanced Scoring and Interpretation of Vineland Social Maturity Scale: Procedure to obtain 'Impairment Adjusted Social Quotient
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2022-03
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Desousa Foundation
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Vineland Social Maturity Scale (VSMS) is generally used to determine three related but different aspects, which is (i) social and adaptive functions, (ii) level of disability and (iii) intelligence. Despite having different uses or despite being used for different purposes, VSMS has been administered, scored and interpreted in a similar way, which many times can lead to erroneous results. When VSMS is used to assess intelligence in children with autism, speech, hearing and other impairments, the very symptoms these children have (such as ‘not playing with peers’, ‘not able to talk’, ‘not interested to read’) can pull down their SQ (IQ) score, which adversely affects these children in different ways. To overcome such limitations, the current article proposes a procedure, where particular items (symptoms) that pulls down the SQ (IQ) score are completely omitted from scoring calculations. This procedure overcomes a major limitation in the assessment of intelligence (that has existed from decades), especially for those children, for whom, no other tests could be carried out except VSMS. Hence, this procedure can benefit thousands of children, families, special education teachers, mental health and other professionals who work with children.
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Vineland Social Maturity Scale, intelligence, disability, social and adaptive functions
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Roopesh Bangalore N. Advanced Scoring and Interpretation of Vineland Social Maturity Scale: Procedure to obtain 'Impairment Adjusted Social Quotient. Indian Journal of Mental Health. 2022 Mar; 9(1): 13-24