KABC Testing Guide

The Kaufman Assessment Battery (KABC) measures cognitive development, in general:

• Short Term Memory
• Visual Processing
• Fluid Reasoning
• Long Term Storage and Retrieval
• Crystallised Ability

Particular Areas Covered may include:

• Block Counting
• Triangles
• Face Recognition
• Pattern Reasoning (ages 5 and 6).
• Story Completion (ages 5 and 6).
• Sequential
• Word Order
• Number Recall
• Conceptual Thinking
• Rover - The child moves a toy dog to find the quickest path to the bone.
• Gestalt Closure: The child mentally fills in the gaps in an inkblot drawing and names or describes the object/action in the drawing.
• Hand Movements: the child copies a series of taps the examiner makes on the table
• Planning
• Pattern Reasoning (ages 7–18)
• Story Completion (ages 7–18)
• Learning
• Atlantis - the assessor shows the child names for things. The child then has to point to the correct picture when read out the nonsense name.
• Atlantis Delayed: the child repeats the Atlantis part 15–25 minutes later to show recall.
• Rebus: the assessor teaches the child a concept associated with a drawing and the child reads aloud phrases and sentences composed of these drawings.
• Rebus Delayed: the child repeats the Rebus part 15–25 minutes later 
• Knowledge
• Riddles
• Expressive Vocabulary
• Verbal Knowledge