[Intelligence assessment using the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children: a pilot study of a sample of children with language development disorders]. / Intelligenzbeurteilung mit der Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC): Pilotstudie an einer Stichprobe sprachentwicklungsgestörter Kinder.

The German version of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children, which will soon be available commercially, was administered to 29 children with developmental speech and language disorders between 7;4 and 11;11 years of age who were patients on an inpatient child psychiatry unit. The correlations of the test results with the WISC-R (German version), the AID (a German intelligence test) and the Raven Coloured Progressive Matrices were calculated; furthermore, an assessment was made for differences in performance on tasks requiring sequential processing and those requiring simultaneous processing. The results of the study indicate that the K-ABC enables a relatively broad-based assessment of cognitive development in speech-and language-disordered children despite the children's verbal handicaps and that the instrument yields information of relevance in planning remedial programs.