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The Bayley Scales of Infant Development (Bayley-III) are recognised internationally as one of the most comprehensive tools to assess children from as young as one month old. With Bayley-III, it is possible to obtain detailed information even from non-verbal children as to their functioning.

Children are assessed in the five key developmental domains of cognition, language, social-emotional, motor and adaptive behaviour.Bayley-III offers significant additions and improvements to the previous editions.

Key features:

• Core battery of five scales: Three sales administered with child interaction; cognitive, motor, language. Two scales conducted with parent questionnaires; social-emotional, adaptive behaviour

• Caregiver Report Form - a template for the examiner to provide scores, information on tests given, how child performed and recommendations

• Behaviour Observation - separate scale for validating examiner and parent perceptions of the child's responses

• New norms based on 1,700 children stratified according age, based on the 2000 US Census

• Ideal for team-testing or multi-disciplinary teams where a professional in each area may assess the child

• Flexible - can administer one or more domain subtests individually

• Rolling case for ease of travel

Additions:

• Social-emotional subtest - Authored by one of the leading experts in child development, Stanley Greenspan

• Adaptive Behaviour subtest - Written by ABAS-II authors Patti L Harrison and Thomas Oakland

• Caregiver Report - With suggestions to help parents plan for their child

• Growth Scores and Growth Charts - Chart a child's growth over time

• Screening Test - A true screener to determine if further testing is indicated

Improvements:

• Easier to administer, more user-friendly; easy-to-follow record forms, easel-back stimulus book, child-appealing manipulatives and play-based items to facilitate assessment

• Easier to determine if child performed the target behaviour

• Simplified scoring rules

• Extended floor and ceiling - Clinician can more easily identify lower functioning infants and toddlers

• Improved clinical studies - Special data collected on children with high-incidence clinical diagnoses

• More parent/caregiver involvement - New test items allow for family input

• Reduced kit weight and size

Link between assessment and intervention

Bayley-III identifies infant and toddler strengths and competencies, as well as their weakness. It also provides a valid and reliable measure of a child's abilities, in addition to giving comparison data for children with high-incidence clinical diagnoses. Growth scores can be used to chart intervention progress, and it's useful in programme evaluation, ongoing monitoring of progress and outcome measurement.

Bayley-III Scoring Assistant

Save time and effort by generating reports and interpreting results with this time-saving software program. Simply install the Windows® software onto a desktop computer, enter subtest raw score data and behaviour observations from the paper record form and let the software do the rest automatically.

NOTE: This software is not Mac OS compatible.

Choose the functionality:

• Use the software as a Scoring Assistant only

• Administer with the electronic record forms loaded onto a PDA

• Or utilise both for total efficiency 

Product Availability

 For User level C, B and S. 

The Bayley-III is available to fully registered psychologists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists and physiotherapists (specialising in early intervention with appropriate training and experience in testing methods and statistics). Bayley-III training is available to any of the aforementioned professions, but is not mandatory to purchase the kit.

User level M.

The Bayley-III is available to developmental paediatricians, paediatricians, paediatric registrars, paediatric fellows, neonatologists, registrars and community physicians after successfully completing the accreditation training provided by Pearson.

Workshop Participant Eligibility Criteria:

• Registered Psychologists

• Occupational Therapists

• Physiotherapists

• Speech Pathologists

• User level M professions listed above

• Provisionally registered psychologists under supervision of a psychologist experienced in child assessment

• Neurodevelopmental therapists with at least 2 years paediatric experience working within a multidisciplinary team context.

• Bayley-III training for research purposes can be considered on application in order to complete assessments under qualified supervision for the duration of a project. This does not entitle the applicant to purchase the Bayley-III test.

Pearson Academy is the Training provider for the Bayley-III Accreditation Course.

Please click here to register your interest and find out more about the Bayley-III Accreditation Training>>

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This book provides an introduction into the use of the BAYLEY-III measures for the major areas of development including cognitive, language, motor, social-emotional, and adaptive functioning