Executive function and self-regulation skills are the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully. Just as an air traffic control system at a busy airport safely manages the arrivals and departures of many aircraft on multiple runways, the brain needs this skill set to filter distractions, prioritize tasks, set and achieve goals, and control impulses. from the Harvard Centre on the Developing Child

Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test

D-REF help clinicians and school psychologists evaluate behavior in a variety of settings.

Benefits

  • Aids practitioners to possibly evaluate children with ADHD-Combined, ADHD-Inattentive, Traumatic brain injury, Autism/Asperger's Syndrome, Neurological/psychiatric disorders, and learning disabilities.
  • Enable the identification of patterns of clinically relevant symptoms.
  • Identify symptoms that create the most stress for the parent, teacher, and child for intervention.
  • Identify symptoms relevant to diagnostic criteria (DSM-IV).
  • Track changes in behavior after intervention.

Features

D-REF include three core indexes and a total composite score based on behavioral, emotional, and cognitive functioning. Four second-level index scores identify patterns of clinically relevant symptoms.

Delis-Rating of Executive Functions

Brief measure of verbal and nonverbal intelligence:

  • Estimate an individual's relative level of verbal and nonverbal ability, as compared to a representative national sample
  • Identify learners who may benefit from educational enrichment or assistance programs
  • Rapidly screen large populations of learners to identify those who would benefit from comprehensive psychoeducational evaluation
  • Quickly assess the intellectual ability of adults in institutional settings, such as prisons, group homes, rehabilitation clinics, or mental health centers
  • Re-evaluate the cognitive ability of a child or adult after a treatment or significant life event source
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