Vineland-3 Overview Training Module

Agenda

What has been updated in the

Vineland?
Vineland Adaptive How has the structure of the
Vineland changed?
Behaviour Scales,
What Vineland-3 Materials are
Third Edition available?
What are the new Vineland-3
Form options?
Online vs Paper-Pencil
administration and scoring
Presented by:
Q Global Vineland-3 Reports.
Valorie O’Keefe Vineland-3 Standardisation and
Consultant Psychologist Psychometrics
Pearson Clinical Assessment

www.pearsonclinical.com.au Overview
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History

Vineland Social Maturity Scale

(1935 & 1965)

Uses of the Vineland-3

Vineland Adaptive Behaviour Scales
(1984 & 2008)

Vineland-3
(2016)

Uses of the Vineland-3 Defining Intellectual Disability

in the DSM-5
• Diagnosing Developmental Delay, Intellectual
Disability, and Autism Spectrum disorder • Deficits in cognitive functioning (“scores of approximately two
standard deviations or more below the mean”)
• Special Education and/or NDIS eligibility • Deficits in adaptive functioning (e.g., communication, daily living,
social participation, and independent living)
• Intervention Planning • Onset in the developmental period

• Progress Monitoring Severity Levels: Defined by adaptive functioning rather than IQ

level (different from DSM-IV)
• Assessing independence and self sufficiency in • Mild
a variety of settings, ie with older adults • Moderate
• Severe
• Profound

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Differentiating Cognitive Ability from

Adaptive Functioning
• Cognitive ability is generally defined as an individual’s
repertoire of skills/knowledge that are either innate
or acquired.
‒ Skills that an individual is capable of performing
Vineland-3 Updates &
• Adaptive Behavior is generally defined as Materials
performance of skills that are necessary for personal
and social sufficiency.
‒ Skills an individual does perform, independently, in daily activities and
routines
‒ Adaptive behaviour is age-related & is evaluated in a social context.
‒ Adaptive behaviour is modifiable

Vineland-3 Updates Vineland-3 Materials

Removed
the words
Three Forms “Rating,” Parent Interview form:
“Survey,” &
“Expanded.” Comprehensive
Interview │ Parent/Caregiver │ Teacher
Each form has Comprehensive and Domain Level
Domain-Level
Motor Skills &
Maladaptive
Domains Behaviour are Parent/Caregiver
available on all
Communication │ Daily Living Skills │ Socialisation │ Motor Skills │ Maladaptive forms now, but Questionnaire Form:
Behaviour are optional.
Comprehensive
Subdomains Gross/Fine
Domain-Level
Motor are
Receptive Personal Interpers. Relations Gross Motor optional.
Expressive Domestic/Numeric Play & Leisure Fine Motor Normed on
birth 9yrs.
birth-9yrs.
Teacher Questionnaire
Written Comm/School Coping Skills
Form:
Removed
Comprehensive
Maladaptive Sections “Other”
section.
Domain-Level
Internalizing | Externalizing | Critical

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Domain-Level Forms Domain-Level Forms

• Allow for shortened administration of the Interview,
Parent/Caregiver, and Teacher Forms. • Age Ranges
• Provide scores for all domains (Communication, Daily Living • Interview Form: 3 to adult
Skills, Socialisation, optionally Motor Skills and Maladaptive
Behavior) and the overall Adaptive Behaviour Composite, but not • Parent/Caregiver Form: 3 to adult
subdomains. • Teacher Form: 3 to 21
• Each can be administered online or via paper booklet. • Administration Time
• Scores meet AAIDD and DSM-5 requirements for diagnosing • Interview Form: ~25 minutes
Intellectual Disability. • Parent/Caregiver Form: ~10-15 minutes
• Domain forms consist of items drawn from each of the • Teacher Form: ~10 minutes
Comprehensive Form subdomains (e.g., Interview Form
Communication domain consists of 45 items sampled equally • No basal and ceiling rules!!!! – Every item is administered
from Receptive, Expressive, & Written subdomains).
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Vineland-3 Instruments Record Forms

Interview Parent/Caregiver Teacher

Form Form Form
Comprehensive Domain-Level Comprehensive Domain-Level Comprehensive Domain-Level

3 Domains 3 Domains 3 Domains 3 Domains 3 Domains 3 Domains

Core Adaptive
9 Subdomains 9 Subdomains 9 Subdomains
Scores
Overall ABC Overall ABC Overall ABC Overall ABC Overall ABC Overall ABC

Motor Skills Motor Skills Motor Skills Motor Skills Motor Skills Motor Skills
Optional
Domains Maladaptive Maladaptive Maladaptive Maladaptive Maladaptive Maladaptive
Behavior Behavior Behavior Behavior Behavior Behavior

Age Range Birth to 90+ 3 to 90+ Birth to 90+ 3 to 90+ 3 to 21 3 to 21

Item Count 502 195 502 180 333 149

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Vineland-3 Scoring pages for hand-

Q-global: Online administration and/or
scoring
scoring platform
For the Vineland-3, allows users to
administer the assessment 3 different
ways:

• Manual Entry: Paper/pencil administration

with Q-global scoring. •

• On-screen Administration: Administer the

assessment on the screen of any web-
enabled device

• Remote On-screen Administration: Allows

a third party (i.e. parent/teacher) to
access the assessment from their own
web-enabled device through sending a
secure URL via email.

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Completion Times in Minutes

Vineland-3 Options Motor Skills Maladaptive Behavior
Examinee Age Core Domains
(O) (O)

Options Comprehensive Interview Form

0-2 20-25 4-5 N/A
Hand Scoring Hybrid All Digital 3-9 35-40 2-3 3-4
• Administration: Paper • Administration: Paper • Administration: Q-global 10-90+ 25-30 N/A 3-4

• Scoring & Reporting: Paper • Scoring & Reporting: Q-global • Scoring & Reporting: Q-global Domain-Level Interview Form
unlimited subscription (pay per usage) 3-90+ 23-27 2-3* 2-3

Comprehensive Parent/Caregiver Form

0-2 10-15 3-4 N/A
• Q-global will automatically keep track of basal, ceiling, and 3-9 20-25 2-3 2-3
subdomain completion rules 10-90 15-20 N/A 2-3

Domain-Level Parent/Caregiver Form

• INTERVIEW FORM: 3-90+ 10-15 2-3* 2-3
• Q-global organises items with related content by topic Comprehensive Teacher Form
• Interview Topics include 2 to 6 items 3-9 15-20 1-2 1-2
• All information for the items within an Interview Topic is 10-21 10-15 N/A 1-2
displayed on a single screen Domain-Level Teacher Form
For more information about Vineland-3 product options, please see:
3-21 8-10 1-2* 1-2
www.pearsonclinical.com/Vineland-3 (Product tab)
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*Ages 3-9 only
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Updated Item Content of the Vineland-3

• Items were updated to reflect changes in daily living (e.g.,
technology) and in conceptions of developmental disabilities
(e.g., autism)
• Outdated items were dropped or modified
• Items are more general in wording to allow for potential
Structure of the cultural differences
Vineland-3 ‒ “Understands what direction his/her language is written in”
‒ “Responds politely when given something” (e.g., more general than ”says
thank you”)
‒ “Maintains culturally appropriate eye contact during social situations”
• Efforts to reduce redundancy and streamline similar items to
specific subdomains (e.g., moving all conversational items to
Socialization)
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Definitions of Vineland-3
Vineland-3 Domains and Subdomains
Adaptive Behavior Subdomains
Domain Subdomain
Communication Receptive
Domain and Subdomain Definition
Expressive
Written Communication
Daily Living Skills Personal
Receptive Attending, Understanding, and
Domestic/Numeric* responding appropriately to
Community/School Community* information from others
Socialisation Interpersonal Relationships
Expressive Using words and sentences to
Play and Leisure
express oneself verbally to others
Coping Skills
Motor Skills (optional) Gross Motor Written Using reading and writing skills
Fine Motor
Maladaptive Behaviors Internalising, Externalising, & Critical Items
(optional) (Sections)
* A different subdomain is used in the Teacher Form
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Definitions of Vineland-3 Definitions of Vineland-3

Adaptive Behavior Subdomains Adaptive Behavior Subdomains
Domain and Subdomain Definition Domain and Subdomain Definition
Daily Living Skills Domain
Personal Self-sufficiency in such areas as eating, Socialisation Domain
dressing, washing, hygiene, and health care
Interpersonal Relationships Responding and relating to others,
Domestic (a) Performing household tasks such as including friendships, caring, social
cleaning up after oneself, chores, and food appropriateness, and conversation
preparation
Numeric (b) Using numeric concepts in practical ways,
including time, dates, and money Play and Leisure Engaging in play and fun activities with
Community (a) Functioning in the world outside the home, others
including safety, using money, travel, rights
and responsibilities, etc.
Coping Skills Demonstrating behavior and emotional
School Community(b) Meeting expectations for appropriate
control in different situations involving
behavior within the school environment
others
a – Interview & Parent/Caregiver Forms only
b – Teacher Form only

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Vineland-3 Motor Skills Domain Vineland-3 Maladaptive Behavior Domain

Optional, and no longer contributes to ABC Optional, and now included on ALL forms!
SUBDOMAIN ITEM DESCRIPTION • Measures undesirable/atypical behaviors that interfere
with adaptive functioning
• Gross Motor • How an individual uses – Rather than measuring the absence of an adaptive
arms & legs for movement behavior
& coordination • Ages 3+
• All items are administered
• Fine Motor • How an individual uses • 3 areas of maladaptive behavior:
hands & fingers to
– Internalising (e.g., anxiety; depression)
manipulate objects
– Externalising (e.g., hyperactivity; disruptive behavior)
The Motor Skills domain is normed from birth – 9 years. Though optional, it can be very useful to
administer to individuals of any age with suspected or known motor deficits. – Critical Items (e.g., self-injury; suicidality; aggression)
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A closer look at the

new Vineland-3 Interview Forms
Forms

Vineland-3 Interview Forms:

Interview Forms
• The interviewer does not read the items to the
respondent or ask him/her to provide item scores.

• The interviewer uses open-ended questioning to

prompt the respondent to talk about the examinee’s
behaviour in the adaptive areas that are assessed.

• The interviewer then uses the information to score the

items himself/herself.

• This is different from the Parent/Caregiver form, where

the items are read and scored by the parent/caregiver
on his/her own (both forms do cover the same
adaptive areas).
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Comprehensive Form

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40 41

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Basal & Ceiling Rules

Comprehensive Forms

Basal/
Form VINELAND-3
Ceiling
Comprehensive Basal 4 consecutive scores of 2
Interview Ceiling 4 consecutive scores of 0

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Introduction of Estimated Items Estimated Items

• Estimated Box: If the respondent has not observed the behavior,
• Options of “Don’t Know” and “No Opportunity” item ask him/her to estimate a score – then check the Estimated Box
response options from Vineland-II have been removed
CHECK IF ESTIMATED

• New ‘Estimated’ Item response options available for every

item across all 3 forms
• The % of estimated items per section is the # of estimated items
divided by the total number of items answered
• If 2+ sections of the form have >25% estimated items, the form
may be invalid
% Est < 15%: Validity is not compromised
% Est ≥15% but < 25%: Interpret with caution
% Est ≥ 25%: Do not interpret scores
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Paper Administration
• Letters designate topic areas – familiarize yourself with Letter Clusters
• Ask the Suggested Interview Question for each Topic Area
• “Let’s talk about what John understands. What types of words does he
understand?”
• Use the Item Specific Probes as needed to ask about specific behaviors

TOPIC AREAS

ASK TOGETHER

ITEM SPECIFIC
PROBES

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Domain Level Interview Form

195 questions
compared to 502 in
the Comprehensive
Form

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Sample Interview Topic Screen

Suggested Question
Topic Area
to Introduce Topic

Item-Specific
Probe

Additional Scoring
Criteria if Needed

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Parent/Caregiver Forms

Questionnaire Forms

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Teacher Forms

Maladaptive Behaviour domain added to assess problem

62 behaviours in the school setting 63

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Changes to Basal & Ceiling Rules

Comprehensive Forms

Basal/
Form VINELAND-II VINELAND-3
Ceiling

Basal Parent completed entire form 5 consecutive scores of 2

Parent/
Caregiver
Ceiling Parent completed entire form 5 consecutive scores of 0

Teacher completed age

Basal 5 consecutive scores of 2
range
Teacher
Teacher completed age
Ceiling 5 consecutive scores of 0
range

No basal and ceiling rules on Domain Forms:

All items completed
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Online Administration of the

Parent/Caregiver & Teacher Forms
• These are self-administering questionnaires conducted
on the Q-global platform
• Q-global allows the examiner to administer the
Vineland 3 at their computer, or, send an email link to
the parent/caregiver or teacher, who completes the
form using a computer, tablet, or smartphone
• Q-global selects the appropriate sections to
administer and uses built-in logic to sequence items
and to track basals and ceilings
• Forms can be completed in one session or in multiple
sessions
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Available Norm-Referenced Scores

• Adaptive Behaviour domains and overall AB Composite
‒ Standard Scores: normative Mean = 100, SD = 15
‒ Range: 20 - 140
‒ 85%/90%/95% Confidence Intervals
‒ Percentile Ranks
Vineland 3 Scores • Adaptive Behaviour subdomains (Comprehensive Forms only)
‒ v-scale scores: normative Mean = 15, SD = 3
‒ Age Equivalents and Growth Scale Values (GSVs)

• Maladaptive Behaviour
‒ v-scale scores for the Internalising and Externalising scales
‒ Critical Items do not form a coherent construct and are therefore reported
at the item level
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Vineland-3 Score Summary Supplemental (Ipsative) Analyses

• Strength/Weakness Analysis
‒ Statistical comparisons of each domain standard score to the
mean domain standard score
‒ Statistical comparisons of each subdomain v-scale score to the
mean subdomain v-scale score (Comprehensive Forms only)
• Pairwise Difference Comparisons
‒ Statistical comparisons of each domain standard score with
all other domain standard scores
‒ Statistical comparisons of each subdomain v-scale score to
selected other subdomain v-scale scores (Comprehensive
Forms only)

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Vineland-3 Supplemental Analysis

Vineland-3
Reports

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Computer-Generated Reports
Q Global Pricing:
• Computerised administration, scoring, and reporting using Q-global

• CD/Disc based scoring software no longer available. Only online. Comprehensive Form
(admin/scoring/reporting): $6.50
Multi-rater
***
comparisons when Comparison to prior
All raw and norm- Narrative text Interview or results when available Domain Form
referenced scores describing scores Parent/Caregiver for monitoring
Form is given along
with Teacher Form
progress (admin/scoring/reporting: $5
***
Unlimited annual license for
• AND MORE, including item-level comparisons between tests scoring paper forms: $67

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Multi-Rater Report:
Scale-Level Comparisons
Parent Teacher

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NEW! Item-Level Comparisons for Progress Report:

Multi-Rater Report Scale-Level Comparisons
Parent Teacher

Time 2

Time 1

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NEW! Item-Level Comparisons for NEW: Intervention Guidance

Progress Report
Time 1 Time 2 • Generated for the Comprehensive form reports only.
• Items in each subdomain are identified with “Content
Areas” that can help focus intervention efforts
• Items within each subdomain are ordered according to
increasing developmental sequence (easiest to most
difficult) based on normative data.
• Lowest subdomain v-scale scores are listed first, followed
by second lowest, etc.
• All scores of 0 and 1 can be referenced to normative
expectations and prioritised for intervention.

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Vineland-3
Psychometrics

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Total Norm Sample for Each Form Percentages of Clinical Groups in

the Normative Sample
Special Interview Form Parent/Caregiver Teacher Form
Education Normative Form Normative Normative
Vineland-3 classification sample Sample Sample
Interview Parent Teacher Autism 0.9 0.9 0.9
(n=2560) (n=2560) (n=1415) Developmental 0.7 0.8 1.1
Less than High School 14.4 (14.0) 13.3 (14.0) 13.0 (13.8) delay
Emotional 0.8 0.6 0.2
High School Diploma 23.4 (23.3) 23.9 (23.3) 22.8 (22.6) disturbance
Some College/Tech/Assoc 31.6 (31.7) 32.3 (31.7) 33.3 (32.6) Intellectual 0.9 0.9 0.9
disability
Bachelor’s Degree/more 30.6 (31.0) 30.5 (31.0) 31.0 (30.9) Specific learning 4.2 4.1 4.3
disability
Speech or 2.7 2.9 2.8
language
impairment
Total: 6,535
All other IDEA 1.7 2.0 2.3
disability
categories

Maternal Education Level

All IDEA disability 11.9 12.2 12.5
categories
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Examples of clinical Samples Included Internal Consistency: Domains/ABC

In Vineland-3 Standardisation
Standard Score Interview Parent Teacher
• Developmental Delay
Communication .95 .97 .97
• Intellectual Disability, School-Age Sample Daily Living Skills .94 .97 .96

Segmented by IQ: 50-70/35-49/<35 Socialization .96 .98 .98
Adaptive Behavior Composite .98 .99 .99
• Intellectual Disability, Adult Sample
Motor Skills .90 .96 .96

Segmented by IQ: 50-70/35-49/<35 Communication .93 .94 .93
• Autism Spectrum Disorder Daily Living Skills .92 .93 .92
Socialization .94 .95 .95

Segmented by age (3-8 & 9-20) and IQ: ≤70 vs. >70
Adaptive Behavior Composite .97 .97 .97
• Hearing Impaired Motor Skills .86 .91 .91

• Visually Impaired Comprehensive Forms

Domain-Level Forms

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Internal Consistency: Subdomains Test-Retest Reliability: Domains/ABC

v-Scale Score Interview Parent Teacher
Standard Score Interview Parent Teacher
Receptive .89 .93 .93
Communication .89 .88 .88
Expressive .92 .97 .95
Daily Living Skills .84 .84 .86
Written .92 .94 .93
Socialization .79 .80 .84
Personal .89 .94 .89
Adaptive Behavior Composite .86 .85 .88
Domestic/Numeric .93 .95 .91
Motor Skills .86 .93 .84
Community/School Community .94 .96 .95
Communication .79 .88 .86
Interpersonal Relationships .92 .95 .96
Daily Living Skills .75 .85 .84
Play and Leisure .91 .95 .94
Socialization .74 .79 .81
Coping Skills .95 .96 .96
Adaptive Behavior Composite .82 .87 .88
Gross Motor .87 .95 .94
Motor Skills .76 .90 .84
Fine Motor .83 .92 .93
Comprehensive Forms
Domain-Level Forms

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Test-Retest Reliability: Subdomains

v-Scale Score Interview Parent Teacher

Receptive .78 .87 .82

Expressive .82 .81 .83
Written .85 .88 .86
Personal .79 .74 .77
Domestic/Numeric .78 .84 .82
Community/School Community .77 .87 .80
Interpersonal Relationships .72 .80 .75
Play and Leisure .78 .81 .77
Coping Skills .72 .67 .81
Gross Motor .90 .90 .82
Fine Motor .78 .89 .87

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