Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test | Second Edition (Bender-Gestalt II) helps assess the maturation of visuomotor perceptions of children and adults.

Bender–Gestalt II Examination Kit
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Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test | Second Edition

Bender-Gestalt II

Lauretta Bender, MD,the American Orthopsychiatric Association, Inc.,Revised by Scott L. Decker, PhD,Gary G. Brannigan

Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test | Second Edition (Bender-Gestalt II) helps assess the maturation of visuomotor perceptions of children and adults.

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Publication date:
2003
Age range:
4 to 85 years and older
Qualification level:
C
Completion time:
No time limit
Norms:
Summary and detailed

The Bender-Gestalt II test consists of a series of durable template cards, each displaying a unique figure. The examinee is asked to draw each figure as he or she observes it.

Benefits

  • Provides interpretive information about an individual's development and neuropsychological functioning.
  • Reveals the maturation level of visuomotor perceptions, which is associated with language ability and various functions of intelligence.
  • Serves as a first measure in an extended psychological battery or as a screener for neuropsychological impairment.
  • Provides comprehensive testing observations include physical demeanor, drawing technique, test-taking behavior, and attitude.

Features

The revised Second Edition of Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test includes:

  • Seven new items.
  • New Recall procedure (visuomotor memory).
  • Supplemental tests of simple motor and perceptual ability.
  • New norms for Copy and Recall procedures.