Developmental Test of Visual Motor Integration (VMI)
* Keith Beery / Norman Buktenica/Natasha Beery
* Helps accurately and efficiently assess visual-motor skills in children and adults.*
- Perceptual Motor (integrated & separate)
- Ages 2 to 18
- Short format and full format tests -10-15 minutes each
- Supplemental Visual Perception and Motor Coordination Tests - 5 minutes each
- Scored by Adninistrator
Description
Internationally respected and backed by decades of research and clinical use, the Beery VMI, now in its fifth edition, offers a convenient and economical way to screen for visual-motor deficits that can lead to learning, neuro-psychological and behaviour problems.
The Beery VMI helps assess the extent to which individuals can integrate their visual and motor abilities. The Short Format and Full Format tests present drawings of geometric forms arranged in order of increasing difficulty that the individual is asked to copy. The Short Format is often used with children ages 2-8 years.
The Beery VMI series also provides supplemental Visual Perception and Motor Coordination tests, which use the same stimulus forms as the Short and Full Format tests. These optional assessments are designed to be administered after results from the Short or Full Format test show the need for further testing, to help compare an individual’s test results with relatively pure visual and motor performances (one or both of the supplemental tests may be used). A statistical comparison of results from all three tests can be quickly and easily made on the graphic profile provided in the test booklets.
How to Use This Test
The Beery VMI can be used by psychologists, learning disability specialists, school counsellors, teachers, and other
professionals to help:
-Identify individuals who may be encountering difficulties in visual-motor integration
-Make appropriate referrals for needed services
-Test the effectiveness of educational and other interventions
-Conduct research
Key Features
-The Beery VMI is among the few psychological assessments that provide standard scores as low as 2 years.
-The Beery VMI 5th Edition Manual provides approximately 600 age-specific norms from birth though age 6. These consist of basic gross motor, fine motor, visual, and visual-fine motor dvelopmental "stepping stones" that have been identified by research criteria. Many examiners find the age norm information useful in helping parents better understand their child’s current level of development. The Manual also presents teaching suggestions.
-As a culture free, non-verbal assessment, the Beery VMI is useful with individuals of diverse environmental, educational, and linguistic backgrounds.
-The Beery VMI provides time-efficient screening tools, with the Short and Full Format tests taking only 10-15 minutes to complete and the supplemental tests taking only about 5 minutes each.
-The Short and Full Format tests can be administered individually or to groups (individual administration is recommended for the supplemental tests).
Norms
The Beery VMI was standardised on a national sample of 2,512 individuals aged 2 to 18 years and has proven reliability and validity. Updates of medical, neuro-psychological, international and other studies are also reported in this edition.
Results
The test administrator scores the assessments using the Beery VMI 5th Edition Manual. Results are reported as standard score, percentile, or other equivalents.
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