Gesell Developmental Schedules By Zeyad Chreim

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Gesell Developmental SchedulesBy Zeyad Chreim
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Author

• Arnold Gesell
• Professor at Yale University
• Established the Yale Clinic of Child Development
• He believed that a childs behavior develops in a
  patterned predictable way.

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Giselle's early work involved the study of
mental retardation in children, but he soon
became convinced that an understanding of normal
development is necessary for the understanding of
abnormal development.
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Gesell Tests

• Gesell Preschool Test For children between the
  ages of 2 ½ and 6.
• School Readiness Test For children between the
  ages of 4 and 8.

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What does it measure?

• The Gesell Developmental Schedules cover four
  fields Motor, Adaptive, Language and
  Personal-Social
• The Gesell Developmental schedules yields the
  Developmental Quotient (DQ) rather than an
  Intelligence Quotient (IQ)

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Four Fields

• Motor - Kick large balls, Walks on tiptoe, Skips,
  Jumps in place, Jumps down, Stands on one foot,
  Standing board jump, Hops on one foot and
  Throwing and catching beanbags

• Adaptive Cube, Paper and pencil and incomplete
  man

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Gesell Developmental Schedules

• The Gesell Tests are not scored numerically
• Scores are placed on the Gesell Developmental
  Schedules
• The schedules are divided into intervals of six
  months
• Gives an examiner a quick and clear view of a
  childs behavior level

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Critics
The Gesell Tests do not take into account other problems that a child might have. A child may be given a lower Developmental Quotient In order to prevent a skewed test result a child should be given a vision and hearing test.
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Validity, Reliability and Guidelines

• Are largely comprised of subjective
  interpretations
• The guidelines for qualifying the examiner vary
  from one program to another. - Results may vary
• Criteria and guidelines for qualifying the
  examiners uniform and standardized.
• Children perform differently under different
  stimuli

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Four Fields

• Language Interview, discriminates prepositions,
  digit repetition, picture vocabulary and
  comprehension questions
• Personal-Social Feeding, dressing, play,
  communicative and temperament

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For More Information

• Thank you for attending this presentation
• For more information please visit the following
  site
• Arnold Gesell Links