Summarizes information on adaptive behavior and skills and general issues in adaptive behavior assessment. This book provides a norm-referenced assessment of the adaptive behavior and skills of individuals from birth through age 89. It provides information and serves as a resource for those who use the ABAS-II and also provides case studies.

It assists in the functional use of the ABAS-II and provides case studies illustrating use of the ABAS-II in comprehensive assessment and intervention planning. It reviews scholarship on adaptive behaviors and skills and describes legal, ethical, and other professional standards and guidelines that apply to the use of the ABAS-II and other measures of adaptive behavior. It also discusses the use of the ABAS-II with: autism; mental retardation; young children and those in elementary and secondary school; as well as, incarcerated persons being evaluated for possible mental retardation.