The Severe Impairment Battery (SIB) was developed for individuals who are too impaired to complete standard neuropsychological tests.
Severe Impairment Battery
SIB
The Severe Impairment Battery (SIB) was developed for individuals who are too impaired to complete standard neuropsychological tests.
Overview
Product Details
- Publication date:
- 1993
- Age range:
- Adults, 51 to 91 years
- Scores/Interpretation:
- Subscale scores
- Qualification level:
- B
- Administration:
- 20 minutes
- Scoring options:
- Hand-scoring
- Norms:
- 70 U.S. patient clinical study
- Administration Format:
- Paper-and-pencil
SIB focuses on gathering direct performance-based data on a wide variety of low-level tasks that take into account the specific behavioral and cognitive deficits associated with severe dementia.
Benefits
- Assess Cognitive Severely Demented Elderly.
- Allows non-verbal and partially correct responses.
- Admits simpler response modes such as matching.
