Piloting the adaptation of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children-2 nd edition (KABC-II) to assess school-age neurodevelopment in rural Zimbabwe.
Joseph D PiperClever MazhangaGloria MapakoIdah MapurisaTsitsi MashedzeEunice MunyamaMarian MwapauraDzivaidzo ChidhanguroGrace GeremaNaume V TavengwaRobert NtoziniLisa F LanghaugMelanie SmukTamsen RochatAlan KaufmanNadeen KaufmanMelissa J GladstoneElizabeth AllenAndrew J PrendergastPublished in: Wellcome open research (2024)
The KABC-II planning domain was successfully adapted to improve cross-cultural validity. Construct validity was enhanced, based on increased inter-correlations among scales. The process of co-design to modify tests for new settings may be beneficial for other commonly used neurodevelopmental tools.