1 The Concept of Adaptive Behavior

Two papers from a Houston seminar on the concept of adaptive behavior provide a review of adaptive behavior measures and a discussion of Jane Mercer's assessment model. Tables present information on administration and content of eight measures: the American Association on Mental Deficiency (AAMD) Clinical, and AAMD School, Caine-Levine, California Preschool, Camelot, Mercer ABIC, Preschool Attainment Record, and The Vineland Social Maturity Scale. The use of many assessment instruments and the pluralistic perspective are said to be among the distinguishing features of Jane Mercer's System of Multicultural Pluralistic Assessment. (CL) Documents acquired by EtIC include many informal unpublished * materials not available from other sources. ERIC makes every effort * * to obtain tho best copy available. Nevertheless, items of marginal * reproducibilty are often encountered and this affects the quality * * of the microfiche and hardcopy reproductions ERIC makes available * via the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS). EDRS is not * responsible for the quality of the original document. Reproductions * * supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original