Rating of Social Adaptive Skills : Comparison between parents and teachers

[出版社版]A survey of domestic and foreign social adaptive skills tests revealed that there is a need for a reliable Japan specific psychological to evaluate the social adaptive skills of not only intellectually disabled children, but also children with LD, ADHD and high functioning autism. The need for such an instrument for junior and senior high school students was particularly evident. To meet this need, the Asahide Social Adaptive Skills Test is being developed. In this paper, the Asahide Social Adaptive Skills Test is evaluated from the point of view of the interrater reliability between parents and teachers based on data obtained from children in a special class(N=4) and children in a regular class(N=11). When the ratings of the 15 children were compared a discrepancy in Stage Score of 7 of 32 subcategories was found, but the difference in Social Adaptive Skills Quotients was not significant (p<.05). These findings supported the reliability of this test. Based on an analysis of a case study, discrepancy in ratings between parents and teachers were due to uncertain evaluations, the difference between the criteria of rating and the understanding of raters, characteristics of the evaluation context, and the child's characteristic. Using an interview method may improve the accuracy of the rating. In addition, it is suggested that understanding of the child can be deepened, and good support can be facilitated by sharing rating results between parents and teachers even if there is a discrepancy in the rating. In the future, it is necessary to collect data on children of differing ages, intellectual abilities and disorders to verify whether comparable results will be obtained