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Bayley Scales of Infant Development: Third Edition

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Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development

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The Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, Third Edition (Bayley-III) is an individually administered instrument to assess the developmental functioning of infants and young children. It is normed for children 1 month to 42 months of age and was recently updated in 2006. Like its predecessor the Bayley-II, the Bayley-III is intended to identify children with developmental delay. The measure is also designed to present information that will be used in treatment planning.

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Information is gathered from both the child and caregiver. The child is administered three separate scales: cognitive, language, and motor. The cognitive scale assesses play skills, information processing, memory and habituation skills, and reasoning abilities. The language scale is divided into two separate abilities: receptive and expressive. Receptive skills assessed by the Bayley-III include comprehending and responding to requests and discriminating between sounds in the...

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  1. Psychology, Nationwide Children’s Hospital/The Ohio State University, 187 W. Schrock Rd., Westerville, OH, 43081, USA

    David Michalec Dr.

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  1. Neurology, Learning and Behavior Center, 230 South 500 East, Suite 100, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84102, USA

    Sam Goldstein Ph.D.

  2. Department of Psychology MS 2C6, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 22030, USA

    Jack A. Naglieri Ph.D. (Professor of Psychology) (Professor of Psychology)

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Michalec, D. (2011). Bayley Scales of Infant Development: Third Edition. In: Goldstein, S., Naglieri, J.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79061-9_295

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