Dean-Woodcock Neuropsychological Battery

CATEGORIES: Ability, Achievement

SUMMARY

The Dean-Woodcock Neuropsycholgical Battery (DW) is a new comprehensive assessment of sensory-motor functioning that includes a structured interview and emotional status exam. The DW expands the psychologist's range of assessment and provides standardized procedures and normative information to typically unstandardized measures used in neuropsychology.

The DW offers different levels of interpretation so that a wide range of professionals will benefit from it - from school psychologists with little or no background in neuropsychology to neuropsychologists and neurologists with extensive background in brain-behaviour relationships. The DW may be used in either a fixed, flexible, or process approach to assessment and may be administered in schools, hospitals, mental health settings, or private practice.

The DW is portable and time efficient - administration time is approximately 40 to 45 minutes. It is appropriate for ages 3.0 to adult, including the geriatric population. The DW provides:

• Meaures of simple and complex sensory and motor functioning to provide more specific diagnostic capabilities
• Methods of interpretation at both the functional level and the neuropsychological/neurological levels appealing to a wide range of professionals
• Valuable measures of important sensory-motor functions frequently assessed in geriatric populations
• An interpretive connection with the Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Cognitive Abilities and Tests of Achievement
• Measures of both cortical and subcortical functions for a more comprehensive assessment of neuropsychological function
• A summary of an individual's functional range of impairment: within normal limits or mildly, moderately, or severely impaired

The Dean-Woodcock Neuropsycholgical Battery is comprised of three parts - a Structured Interview, Emotional Status Exam, and Sensory-Motor Battery. During the Structured Interview, clinicians as questions to determine an individual's medical and family background. The Emotional Status Exam focuses on psychiatric signs and symptoms - covering most major disorders found in the DSM-IV - as well as clinical impressions. The Sensory-Motor Battery consists of the 18 subtests outlined in the chart below:

Sensory-Motor Battery Subtests
Sensory-Motor Area	Subtest
Sensory Tests	Lateral Preference Scale
	Near Point Visual Acuity
	Visual Confrontation
	Naming Pictures of Objects
	Auditory Perception
Tactile Examination	Palm Writing
	Object Identification
	Finger Identification
	Simultaneous Localization (Hands Only and Hand/Cheek)
Motor Tests (Subcortical)	Gait and Station
	Romberg Test
	Coordination Test (Finger to Nose and Hand/Thigh)
Motor Tests (Cortical)	Construction Test (Cross and Clock)
	Mime Movements
	Left-Right Movements
	Finger Tapping
	Expressive Speech
	Grip Strength

COMPONENTS

Complete Battery includes: Stimulus Test Booklet, Manipulatives and storage box, Examiner's Manual, one package of each of Test Records, Interview Forms, Emotional Status Forms, and Carrying Case.

COMPONENTS	ISBN	PRICE (Cdn. $)
Dean-Woodcock Neuropsychological Battery	9-23660	$495.00
Dean-Woodcock Emotional Status Forms (Pkg. 25)	9-23687	$99.25
Dean-Woodcock Interview Forms (Pkg. 25)	9-23689	$68.25
Dean-Woodcock Test Records (Pkg. 25)	9-23691	$84.00

Prices are in effect January 2, 2009.