Griffiths Scales of Child Development, Third Edition.
Griffiths III
- What it measures
- Whole-child development from birth to 6 years across five subscales - foundations of learning, language and communication, eye and hand coordination, personal-social-emotional, gross motor - plus a General Development Quotient.
- Length and format
- 5 subscales administered with basal and ceiling rules; item counts vary by subscale. performance and observational administration with structured parent report (performance/ability test)
- Language versions
- English original with validated adaptations in Chinese, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish and Arabic among others; an unusually active international adaptation programme run through the Association for Research in Infant and Child Development.
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- copyrighted - commercial
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- Reference
- Green, E., Stroud, L., Bloomfield, S., et al. (2016). Griffiths Scales of Child Development, Third Edition. Oxford: Hogrefe. https://www.hogrefe.com/
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