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McCarthy Scales of Children’s Abilities

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Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology

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MSCA

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The McCarthy Scales of Children’s Abilities (MSCA) is a psychological instrument for young children that measures cognitive ability in six domain areas: Verbal, Perceptual-Performance, Quantitative, General Cognitive, Memory, and Motor. One unique feature of this measure is a Motor domain area which examines the development of fine and gross motor skills as well as one’s left and right handedness. Each scale contains a number of individual subtests. The Verbal scale includes the subtests of Pictorial Memory, Word Knowledge, Verbal Memory, Verbal Fluency, and Opposite Analogies. The Perceptual-Performance scale includes the subtests of Block Building, Puzzle Solving, Tapping Sequence, Right-Left Orientation, Draw-A-Design, Draw-A-Child, and Conceptual Grouping. The Quantitative scale includes the subtests of Number Questions, Numerical Memory, and Counting and Sorting. The General Cognitive scale includes the previous subtests which compose the Verbal,...

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  • Sattler, J. M. (1988). Assessment of children’s intelligence and special abilities (3rd ed.). Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.

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  1. Applied Psychology and Counselor Education, University of Northern Colorado, McKee 248, Box 131, 80631, Greeley, CO, USA

    Aaron Schrader

  2. University of Macau, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, 229 Tai Fung Building, Taipa, Macau SAR, China

    Rik Carl D’Amato

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  1. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Professor of Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry Virginia Commonwealth University – Medical Center Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, VCU, 980542, Richmond, Virginia, 23298-0542, USA

    Jeffrey S. Kreutzer

  2. Kessler Foundation Research Center, 1199 Pleasant Valley Way, West Orange, NJ, 07052, USA

    John DeLuca

  3. Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Neurology and Neuroscience, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey – New Jersey Medical School, New Jersey, USA

    John DeLuca

  4. Independent Practice, 564 M.O.B. East, 100 E. Lancaster Ave., Wynnewood, PA, 19096, USA

    Bruce Caplan

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Schrader, A., D’Amato, R.C. (2011). McCarthy Scales of Children’s Abilities. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79948-3_1462

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