Kaufman Developmental Scale

Question: What is the Kaufman Developmental Scale?
Answer: The Kaufman Developmental Scale evaluates school readiness, and developmental deficits for six developmental areas. The test is designed for infants through age 6 and the test lasts about 30 minutes.

The Kaufman Developmental Scale (KDS) is both an assessment tool and a curricular/programming tool for normal children through age nine, and mentally retarded persons at any age.

The KDS consists of 270 behavioral evaluation items representing maturational levels. All items assessed are samples of behaviors that can be taught, thus stressing the use of the KDS in developing teaching objectives.

The behavioral items are divided into six basic developmental modalities as follows:

• Gross Motor
• Fine Motor
• Receptive
• Expressive
• Personal Behavior
• Receptive Inter-personal Behavior

The modalities are further divided into six developmental stages to allow for immediate visual scrutinization of developmental progress:

• Infancy
• Early Childhood
• Play Age
• Receptive Middle Childhood
• Early Adolescence
• Late Adolescence and beyond