Brown Attention-Deficit Disorder Scales® (Brown ADD Scales)

T.E. Brown

Obtain a consistent measure of ADD across the life span with the Brown Attention-Deficit Disorder Scales® for Children and Adolescents and the Brown Attention-Deficit Disorder Scales for Adolescents and Adults. Based on Thomas Brown’s cutting edge model of cognitive functioning aspects of cognition associated with AD/HD (ADD).

Extended age range

With the new Brown ADD Scales for Children that include a primary/preschool scale (ages 3 to 7) and a school-age scale (ages 8 to 12), in addition to the adolescent and adult scales already available, the Brown ADD Scales allow you to comprehensively assess ADD in individuals of all ages.

Clusters of executive functions

The Brown ADD Scales go beyond measures that address only hyperactivity to assess for less apparent impairments of executive functioning. The manuals explain the new understanding of ADD as complex impairments of executive functions that impact academic, social, emotional and behavioural functioning.

As with the adolescent and adult version, the children’s edition features five clusters frequently associated with ADD – plus a sixth one, Monitoring and Self-Regulating Action, that encompasses problems in appropriately controlling behaviour:

• Organising, Prioritising and Activating to Work

• Focusing, Sustaining and Shifting Attention to Tasks
• Regulating Alertness, Sustaining Effort and Processing Speed
• Managing Frustration and Modulating Emotions

• Utilising Working Memory and Accessing Recall

• Monitoring and Self-Regulating Action

User-Friendly

You can administer any of these 40 to 50-item efficient screening instruments in just 10 to 20 minutes. Easy to understand parent and teacher questionnaires are available for the children’s version, and self-report forms are provided for ages 8 through adults to obtain information that may be overlooked by observers.

Variety of uses

Use the Brown ADD Scales for screening, as part of a comprehensive diagnosis, and for monitoring of treatment responses in a wide range of educational, clinical and managed care settings.

Relationship with intelligence and memory

The manual for the adolescent and adult scales helps to integrate performance with the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale® - Third Edition (WAIS®-III), while the children’s manual relates performance to scores from the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children®-Third Edition (WISC-III®) and select subtest of the Children’s Memory Scale™. The manuals provide instructions for interpretation and linking performance on the Brown ADD Scales with IQ and other assessment data.

Comprehensive Diagnostic Form

The Brown ADD Diagnostic Form allows you to gather and integrate important diagnostic information about an individual, with cluster and total scores arriving at a diagnostic decision. The Diagnostic Form helps you conduct a comprehensive evaluation, with a set of procedures for integrating a clinical history, a comorbidity screener, and a worksheet for integrating data from the Brown ADD Scales with standardised scores from other tests.

Flexible Scoring

The convenient Ready Score® form gives you immediate cluster scores and a total score indicating overall impairment from a broad range of ADD symptoms. T scores give you an indication of how much impairment the examinee is showing on each of the clusters, relative to a normative population.

Results indicate whether the individual appears to have ADD and would benefit from a full evaluation for the disorder.

Norms

Clinically validated Cut Score.