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Discrepancies between the California Verbal Learning Test: Children's version and the Children's Category Test after pediatric traumatic brain injury

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2005

JACOBUS DONDERS  and
ADAM GIROUX
JACOBUS DONDERS
Affiliation:
Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital, Grand Rapids, Michigan
ADAM GIROUX
Affiliation:
Hope College, Holland, Michigan
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Abstract

One hundred 9–16-year-old children with traumatic brain injury (TBI) completed the California Verbal Learning Test–Children's Version (CVLT–C) and the Children's Category Test (CCT) within 1 year after injury. Performance contrasts between these two instruments that were unusually large (> 16 T score points) were about as common in this clinical sample as in the standardization sample of both instruments. However, relatively poor performance on the CVLT–C as compared to the CCT was associated with prolonged coma and lower scores on the Processing Speed index of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children–Third Edition. It is concluded that a relative weakness on the CVLT–C is more likely to reflect cerebral compromise after pediatric TBI than is a relative weakness on the CCT. (JINS, 2005, 11, 386–391.)

Keywords

ChildrenTBILearningProblem solving
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , July 2005 , pp. 386 - 391
Copyright
© 2005 The International Neuropsychological Society

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