Children's Memory Scale™ (CMS)

Morris Cohen

This battery comprehensively assesses the integrity of memory functions in children and enables comparison with measures of both ability and achievement. In keeping with the high standards of technical quality, reliability, and validity established by the Wechsler series, the CMS links learning and memory directly to ability and achievement, as measured by the WISC-III, WPPSI-R, and WIAT. The CMS parallels the structure of the adult Wechsler Memory Scales. Its 6 core subtests load onto scales tapping

• Immediate Verbal Memory
• Delayed Verbal Memory
• General Memory
• Immediate Visual Memory
• Delayed Visual Memory

It features minimal item bias and extensive clinical validation studies, making it appropriate as a process skills screening instrument for children with learning difficulties or memory/attentional deficits resulting from TBI, epilepsy, cancer, etc.

Reliability Information

Average reliability coefficient: E.G. .91 (general memory)

Test-retest reliability: E.G. .89 (attention/concentration ages 9-12)

Inter-rater reliability: E.G. .94 (delayed word lists ages 5-8)

Scoring Assistant for the Children's Memory Scale

This software programme allows you to enter an individual's age and CMS raw scores into your computer and the Scoring assistant will automatically convert the data into the appropriate scaled scores, index scores and graphs. Users have the option of printing select pages of the entire report. Selected pages can also be copied to a clipboard and pasted into your word processor.

Manufacturer System Requirements:

WINDOWS™ Version

•    486 processor or higher
•    At least 8MB RAM
•    Hard disk with at least 10MB free disk space
•    High Density 3.5" (1.44MB) floppy disk
•    Microsoft® MS-DOS version 5.1 or later.

Macintosh System  

•    7.1 or later (accelerated for the Power Macintosh)
•    Screen resolution of at least 640x400 pixels (Powerbooks supported)
•    8MB of RAM (16MB on a Power Macintosh).