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Movement Assessment Battery for Children(Third Edition) MABC-3 Kit

The Movement Assessment Battery for Children, Third Edition (Movement ABC-3) provides an overview of gross and fine motor skills to assist in the identification of motor coordination difficulties in children and young adults.

Movement ABC-3 Benefits: 

  • Identifies delay or impairment in motor development
  • Helps in intervention planning
  • Measures change and monitors progress over time
  • Quick and easy to use in research related to motor development
  • Helps paint a more holistic picture of motor performance using the Checklists to complement observational assessment

The Movement ABC-3 updates include:

  • Revised and updated test content and items
  • New manipulatives
  • Extended age range down to 3 and up to 25
  • Co-collected sample between the UK and ANZ
  • Unified contructs across ages

Three Movement ABC-3 subtests:

  • Manual Dexterity
  • Aiming & Catching
  • Balance

Separate Checklists for each age band:

  • Parent/Teacher/Other
  • Self (age band 3 only)

Test content and structure

The test contains 10 tasks for each of 3 age ranges: 3–6 years; 7–11 years and 12–25 years. The tasks cover the following 3 areas:

  • Manual Dexterity
  • Aiming & Catching (ball skills)
  • Balance (static and dynamic)

Total standard scores and percentiles are provided and a profile of a child’s performance over the different sections of the test can be examined.
The assessment is paralleled by an observational approach to perceptual-motor aspects and emotional and motivational difficulties the child may have in relation to motor tasks.
Features

  • Norms based on a sample of 1320 collected jointly in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
  • Extensive international research built over the previous version of the assessment and this version – featuring in over 500 studies.
  • Numerous translations worldwide.

Test content and structure

The test contains 10 tasks for each of 3 age ranges: 3 – 6 years; 7 – 11 years and 12 – 25 years. The tasks cover the following 3 areas:

  • Manual Dexterity
  • Aiming & Catching (ball skills)
  • Balance (static and dynamic).

Total standard scores and percentiles are provided. A profile of a child’s performance over the different sections of the test can be examined.
The assessment is paralleled by an observational approach to perceptual-motor aspects and emotional and motivational difficulties the child may have in relation to motor tasks.

The Movement ABC-3 Checklists

The Movement ABC-3 Checklists provide a means for assessing movement in everyday situations in which the child or young adult participates.

Use the Checklist to:

  • Assess groups of students in classroom situations
  • Obtain parents’ or teachers’ views on a young person’s movement in everyday settings
  • Measure the extent to which a young person’s attitudes and feelings about motor tasks are situation-specific or more generalized

€1,826.55

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