The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale is a

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instrument used in

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and clinical psychology. It is used especially in the assessment of individuals with an

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, a pervasive developmental disorder, and other types of

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History

The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale was first published in 1984, as a revision of the

Vineland Social Maturity Scale The Vineland Social Maturity Scale is a psychometric assessment instrument designed to help in the assessment of social competence. It was developed by the American psychologist Edgar Arnold Doll and published in 1940. He published a manual for it ...

, which is named after

Vineland Training School The Vineland Training School is a non-profit organization in Vineland, New Jersey with the mission of educating people with developmental disabilities so they can live independently. It has been a leader in research and testing. The Training Sch ...

in Vineland, New Jersey where Edgar Doll had developed it. In 2005, Vineland-II was published, which added a 4th domain of motor skills, and in 2016 Vineland-3 was published, where the overall number of items on the scale increased by 34%.

Purpose

The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale assesses a person's adaptive level of functioning by standardized interview of the person or their caregiver through their

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such as walking, talking, getting dressed, going to school, preparing a meal, etc. The original Vineland interview assessed three domains: communication, socialization and daily living, which correspond to the 3 domains of adaptive functioning recognized by the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities namely conceptual skills (language and literacy, mathematics, time and number concepts, and self-direction),

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s and practical skills of daily living.

Limitations

Since no gold standard for evaluation of adaptive behavior exists, the

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of this tool is unknown.

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