Test Review No. 12 1 : Balthazar Scales of Adaptive Behavior: Section 1

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Profoundly and severely mentally retarded; copyright 1971; BSAB-1; 8 scores: dependent feeding, finger foods, spoon usage, fork usage, drinking, total eating scale, total dressing scale, and total toileting scale; individual observation and informant interview; hand-scored; 1 form (1971, 7 pages); supervisor's manual (1971, 68 pages); rater's manual (1971, 64 pages); training manual (1971, 28 pages); specimen set (1 supervisor's manual, 1 rater's manual, 1 scoring form, and 1 training manual), $7.25; supervisor's manual, $3.00; rater's manual, $2.25; scoring form $0.50; training manual, $1.50; no test administration time estimates given; test author: Earl E. Balthazar; publisher: Research Press Company, 2612 North Mattis Avenue, Champaign, III. 61820 (telephone 1-217-352-3273); test review and prices relate to specimen set received June 1972.

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