Behavioural Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome (BADS) predicts everyday problems associated with a major area of cognitive deficit that can impede functional recovery and the ability to respond to rehabilitation programs.
Behavioural Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome
BADS
Behavioural Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome (BADS) predicts everyday problems associated with a major area of cognitive deficit that can impede functional recovery and the ability to respond to rehabilitation programs.
Overview
Product Details
- Age range:
- 16 to 87 years
- Qualification level:
- B
- Administration:
- 40 minutes
- Norms:
- 216 U.K. controls and 92 patient study. Aged scaled scores and percentile ranks
BADS is designed to predict issues associated with Dysexecutive Syndrome, including disorders of planning, organization, problem solving, setting priorities, and attention.
Benefits
- Assess skills and demands of everyday life.
- Emphasize capacities usually exercised in everyday situations.
- Sensitive to capacities affected by frontal lobe damage and to everyday problems experienced due to brain injury; a small study was conducted with schizophrenia to identify executive deficits in this group.
