title: Accommodating the Bayley-III for motor and/or visual impairment: a comparative pilot study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study assessed the validity and usefulness of the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, Third Edition (Bayley-III) Low Motor/Vision accommodated version. Accommodations are adaptations to minimize impairment bias, without altering what the test measures. Of the items, 66% have Low Motor accommodations like enlarged materials; 62% have Low Vision accommodations.
  
  
  METHODS
  Using a within-subject design, we tested 19 children with the accommodated and standard Bayley-III, in a randomly counterbalanced order. The children had motor and/or visual impairment and a chronological age between 22 and 90 months. The test administrators completed an evaluation form.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A subgroup of children benefited from the accommodations; 2 children obtained a large raw score difference. Test administrators considered the accommodations as practical, and advantageous for most children.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Low Motor/Vision accommodated version seems to validly assess the development of this population. Future, larger-scale research should study whether the accommodations improve the construct validity of the Bayley-III.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Special Needs Education and Youth Care (Ms Visser and Drs Ruiter, van der Meulen, and Ruijssenaars) and Psychometrics and Statistics (Dr Timmerman), Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Visser
authors.forename: Selma A J
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Ruiter
authors.forename: Bieuwe F
authors.initials: BF
authors.lastname: van der Meulen
authors.forename: Wied A J J M
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Ruijssenaars
authors.forename: Marieke E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Timmerman
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002658:Developmental Disabilities / Q000175:diagnosis*; D019988:Children with Disabilities / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities; D010865:Pilot Projects; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D019987:Persons with Visual Disabilities / Q000534:rehabilitation