Vineland Adaptive
Behaviour Scales
(VABS)
IS A TYPE OF ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR SKILLS ASSESSMENT SCALE.
PRESENTED BY
AYESHA SARFRAZ
What is adaptive behavior?
Adaptive behavior skills include:
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Communication and social
skills
Personal care skills
Independent living
skills
Practical academics
Employment/work
skills
Adaptive behavior skills include:
Adaptive
Behaviour
Skills
Communication (interacting and communicating with other people)
and social skills
Independent (shopping, budgeting, and cleaning)
living skills
Personal care (eating, dressing, and grooming)
skills
Employment/wor (following directions, completing tasks, and getting to
k skills work on time)
Practical (reading, computation, and telling time)
academics
Vineland Adaptive Behaviour Scales (VABS)
Three Versions of VABS
. The Interview Edition, Survey Form
1
(297 items)
2. The Interview Edition, Expanded
Form (577 items)
3. The Classroom Edition (244 items)
Vineland Adaptive Behaviour Scales
(VABS)
Introduction
The VABS (1984, 2005, 2008, 2016) developed and revised by Sara Sparrow, david
Balla, & Domestic Cicchetti
The Vineland Adaptive Behaviour Scales, a revision of the Vineland Adaptive
Social Maturity Scale ( which focussed only on socialization rather then other
areas of daily living life skills).
Assess personal and social sufficiency of individuals from birth to adulthood.
This scale is applicable to handicapped and nonhandicapped individuals.
Revised Vineland does not require the direct administration of tasks to an
individual, but instead requires a respondent who is familiar with the individual’s
behaviour.
The Interview Edition, Survey Form
Total items are 297
Assess weakness and strength about adaptive skills.
A trained interviewer administered this survey form to a parent or caregiver of an
individual from birth to 18 years and 11 months old or low functioning adults.
Timing 20 and 60 minutes
Age range 6 to 18 years
For administration
Vineland Adaptive Behaviour Scales: Interview Edition Survey Form
Vineland Adaptive Behaviour Scales: Interview Edition Manual
Uses/Purpose of VABS
Confirming or establishing Intellectual Disability
Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder
Confirming the developmental delays in personal care and social functioning
skills
Program Planning
Measuring Progress/ change over time
VABS Four Adaptive Domains & their
Subdomains
• Personal
• Receptive • Domestic
• Expressive • Community
• Written
Communicati Daily Living
on Skills
Socialization Motor Skills
• Interpersonal • Gross
• Play/ Leisure Motor
• Coping Skills • Fine Motor
Maladaptive Domain is Optional it is consists 2 parts.
Part-1
Part-2
Applied on children who are 5 years old and above the age of five.
Division of Subdomains into Categories
Domain Sub-Domain Category
• Understanding
Receptive
• Listening and attending
• Following instruction
• Pre-speech expression
Expressive • Beginning to talk
Communication •
•
Interactive speech
Using abstract concepts
• Speech skills
• Expressing complete ideas
• Beginning to read
Written • Reading skills
• Writing skills
Division of Subdomains into Categories
Domain Sub-Domains Categories
• Eating and drinking
• Toileting
Personal • Dressing
• Bathing
• Grooming
• Health Care
Daily Living Domestic
• Housekeeping
• Kitchen Chores
Skills • Caring for Clothes
• Safety Skills
• Telephone Skills
Community • Money Skills
• Time and dates
• Left right orientation
• Restaurant Skills
• Job Skills
Division of Subdomains into Categories
Domain Sub-Domains Categories
• Responding to others
• Expressing and recognizing
Interpersonal emotions
• Imitating
• Social Communication
• Friendship
• Thoughtfulness
• Belongingness to groups
Socialization •
•
Dating
Playing
• Sharing and cooperating
Play/Leisure • Television and Radio
• Hobbies
• Going places with friends
• Manners
• Following rules
• Apologising
Coping Skills • Keeping secrets
• Controlling impuses
• Responsibility
Division of Subdomains into Categories
Domain Sub-Domains Categories
• Sitting
Gross Motor Skills • Walking And Running
• Play Activity
Motor Skills
Fine Motor Skills • Manipulating Objects
• Drawing and Using Scissor
Material
Survey form manual
Record booklet
Pencil
eraser
Administration of VABS
General Instructions
Describe a brief introduction about the test in front of individual’s care giver and parents.
Ask them I will read a statement and then you have to score the statement in accordance with
your child
Score the each item as 2, 1, & 0
In this test there are some items in which you should not score the item as 1.
Strat test according to the C.A.
Find out the B.A and Ceiling point.
Basal age –when 7 questions scored as 2.
Ceiling point- it is a point where we stop the test when 7 consecutive items scoring is 0.
Scoring of VABS
