Vineland Adaptive Behavior Analysis

Assessment tool
Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales-Second Edition (Vineland-II)

Outline Population
The Vineland Adaptive Behaviour Scales (Vineland-11) assess individuals with behavioural difficulties. The age or ethnicity of the person assessed does not matter when using this assessment tool.

Purpose
As described in the Review of the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales-Second Edition (Vineland-II), the purpose of this tool is to analyze the behavioural, emotion, social, cognitive and physical condition of the patient (Community-University Partnership for the Study of Children, Youth, and Families, 2011). In addition, the Vineland assessment scale also looks at the quotidian lifestyle of the subject. This tool is used to monitor the evolution
For instance, this Vineland tool can be used within the Therapeutic Recreation field to measure the progress of the individual. This is because the tool can evaluate the individual’s state at the beginning of the program and can be used to compare by redoing the assessment at the end of the program.
Another relevance that the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales has to Therapeutic Recreation is once the initial assessment is done, it gives an vision of what the client does in his everyday life. This includes what the client does in their leisure time. This information can enable program planning ideas to the Therapeutic Recreation Specialist that they can use for the client. This will ensure that the program will cater to his lifestyle and meet their needs.
Lastly, the criteria’s that are assess in this Vineland tool such as behaviour, cognitive, social are among a few aspects that can give more detailed information to the Therapeutic Recreation Specialist. The results from this assessment tool can provide information such as what the clients weaknesses, boundaries, limitations, strength, and needs are. The Therapeutic Recreation Specialist can use this information based on the result to further create a program that can strengthen the individual’s limitations, weakness, a long with cater to their needs
Moreover, this assessment tool is also often given to young children since it can aid to indicate behaviours or clinical conditions within a toddler. However, this scale could also work well with individuals with any type of behavioral, social, physical condition. This is because the scale is created to measure socialization, motor skills, maladaptive behavior, communication and daily living skills as mentioned in the Community-University Partnership for the Study of Children, Youth, and Families (2011). For example, this tool can be used to measure people who have dementia as it can examine the evolution of behaviour within the client by having the test done periodically throughout the course of the chronic condition. Another example is this assessment tool can be used to measure the development of a person who has broken their wrist as in can asses the person’s fine motor skill level. The Vineland assessment tool in this example would be given before and after the program to measure if the wrist has strengthened and has a better range of motion to pursuit one’s leisure activities. These few example demonstrate that the tool can be given to many different types of conditions regardless of their