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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 domain 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 enumerated subtests which compose...

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

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  1. Legal Psychology (Psychology and Law), Neuropsychology, Clinical Psychology, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago, IL, USA

    R. Sands

  2. School Psychology, Clinical Neuropsychology, Clinical Psychology, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago, IL, USA

    Rik Carl D’Amato

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  1. R. Sands
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Correspondence to Rik Carl D’Amato .

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  1. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

    Jeffrey S. Kreutzer

  2. Kessler Foundation, Pleasant Valley Way, West Orange, NJ, USA

    John DeLuca

  3. Independent Practice, Wynnewood, PA, USA

    Bruce Caplan

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Sands, R., D’Amato, R.C. (2018). McCarthy Scales of Children’s Abilities. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_1462

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