ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT SCALE, THIRD EDITION (ABAS III): Client’ Choose
an item. s filled out the ABAS III Form with clarifications provided by the examiner. Test results
are as follows:
ABAS-III - Parent Form
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Date: 10/15/2019
Skill Area/Description
Communication: Speech, Language, and
Listening Skills needed for communication
with other people including vocabulary,
responding to questions, conversation skills,
etc.
Community Use - Skills needed for
functioning and appropriate behavior in the
community including getting around in the
community, expression of interest in activities
outside the home, and cognition of different
facilities
Functional (Pre-) Academics - Basic preacademic skills that form the foundations for
reading, writing, math, and other skills needed
for daily, and independent functioning,
including letter recognition, counting, drawing,
and simple shapes
Home Living - Skills needed for basic care of
home/living setting including cleaning,
straightening, helping adults with household
task, and taking care of personal possessions.
Health and Safety - Skills related to
protection of health and to respond to illness
and injury including following safety rules,
using medicines, showing caution, and keeping
out of danger.
Leisure - Skills needed for engaging in and
planning leisure and recreational activities
including playing with others, playing with
toys, engaging in recreation at home, and
following rules
Self-Care - Skills related to personal care,
including eating, dressing, bathing, toileting,
grooming and hygiene
Self-Direction - Skills needed for
independence, responsibility, and self-control,
including making choices about food and
clothing, starting/completing tasks, following a
daily routine, and following directions
Social - Skills needed to interact socially and
get along with other people, including
expression of affection, having friends,
Scaled Score
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showing and recognizing emotions, assisting
others, and using manners
Motor – Basic fine and gross motor skills
needed for locomotion and manipulation of the
environment, and the later development of
skills necessary for more complex activities
such as sports
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ABAS-III Parent
Form
Composite/Description
Scaled Score
Conceptual - Adaptive behavior related to
cognitive, communication, and academic skills
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Social - Adaptive behaviors associated with
interpersonal skills and social competence
Practical - Adaptive behaviors related to
independent living and daily life skills
General Adaptive Composite (GAC) Global measure of a person's overall adaptive
behavior and provides general indication of
ability to be successful in the
residential/community environment as
compared to the standardized population.
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Results of the ABAS-III, as completed by the Choose an item. suggests that Client’s overall
adaptive abilities fall into the Choose an item. range, as high as or higher than Click or tap here to
enter text.% of individuals of the same age, with a Global Adaptive Composite (GAC) standard
score of Click or tap here to enter text.. Client’s true score is likely to fall within the range of Click
or tap here to enter text. to Click or tap here to enter text. at a 95% level of confidence.
Skills within the Conceptual Composite include receptive and expressive language
(Communication), reading and writing, money concepts (Functional Academics), and selfdirection. Based on the ratings by Choose an item., Client obtained a standard score of Click or tap
here to enter text.. (95% confidence interval of Click or tap here to enter text. to Click or tap here to
enter text.) which is in the Choose an item. range, as high as or higher than Click or tap here to enter
text.% of individuals of the same age.
Social Composite includes skills pertaining to interpersonal relationships, responsibility, selfesteem, gullibility, following rules, and avoiding victimization (Leisure and Social skills area).
Based on parent’s rating, Client obtained a standard score of Click or tap here to enter text. with
the true score likely to fall between Click or tap here to enter text. to Click or tap here to enter text.
on a 95% confidence interval. This score falls in the Choose an item. range, as high as or higher
than Click or tap here to enter text.% of individuals of the same age.
Skills within the Practical Composite include basic maintenance activities of daily living (SelfCare), instrumental activities of daily living (Home Living) together with occupation skills and
maintenance of safe environments (Community Use and Health and Safety). Client obtained a
standard score of Click or tap here to enter text. (95% confidence interval of Click or tap here to
enter text. to Click or tap here to enter text.) on the Practical Composite resulting in the Choose an
item. range, as high as or higher than Click or tap here to enter text. % of individuals of the same
age.