Assessment Tools | ARISE — 63 Gold-Standard Instruments Across 12 Clinical Domains

Broad-Band and Cross-Cutting

General screening tools used across multiple conditions and settings.

5 tools

Cognitive and Intellectual Ability

Standardised assessments of intelligence, reasoning, and cognitive processing.

6 tools

WISC-5 Ages 6 to 16 years

Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, 5th Edition

The most widely used individual IQ test worldwide. Measures full-scale IQ across five indices: verbal comprehension, visual spatial, fluid reasoning, working memory, and processing speed.

WPPSI-IV Ages 2y6m to 7 years

Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence, 4th Edition

Gold standard cognitive assessment for preschoolers. Uses engaging, game-like tasks to measure language, visual reasoning, and processing with minimal verbal demands.

KABC-II Ages 3 to 18 years

Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children, 2nd Edition

Assesses sequential and simultaneous processing, learning ability, and planning. Designed to minimise cultural and language bias, useful for bilingual or hearing-impaired children.

MISIC Ages 6 to 15 years

Malin's Intelligence Scale for Indian Children

India-standardised adaptation of the WISC-R with local norms. Important when culturally calibrated cognitive data is required for Indian children.

BKT Ages 3 to 22 years

Binet-Kamat Test

Indian adaptation of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, widely used across India for intellectual assessment with local normative data.

NIMHANS Neuropsych Battery Ages 5 to 15 years

NIMHANS Neuropsychological Battery for Children

Comprehensive neuropsychological assessment battery normed on Indian children, covering attention, memory, executive function, and language.

Developmental and Early Childhood

Tools for assessing development from infancy through school age.

6 tools

Bayley-4 Ages 16 days to 42 months

Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, 4th Edition

Gold standard for infant and toddler developmental assessment. Evaluates cognitive, language, motor, social-emotional, and adaptive behavior domains.

ASQ-3 Ages 1 to 66 months

Ages and Stages Questionnaires, 3rd Edition

Parent-completed developmental screening across five domains: communication, gross motor, fine motor, problem solving, and personal-social skills.

DDST-II Ages Birth to 6 years

Denver Developmental Screening Test II

Widely used developmental screening across personal-social, fine motor, language, and gross motor domains. Practical and quick to administer in primary care settings.

DP-3 Ages Birth to 12 years

Developmental Profile, 3rd Edition

Parent-caregiver interview covering five developmental domains: physical, adaptive behavior, social-emotional, cognitive, and communication. Useful for progress monitoring.

VABS-3 Ages Birth to adult

Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, 3rd Edition

Gold standard for measuring adaptive functioning including communication, daily living skills, socialisation, and motor development. Essential for ASD and intellectual disability assessments.

NSB Ages 6 to 14 years

NIMHANS Index of Specific Learning Disabilities

NIMHANS-developed battery for identifying specific learning disabilities in Indian school children, covering reading, writing, and arithmetic.

ADHD and Executive Function

Assessments for attention, hyperactivity, impulsivity, and executive control.

5 tools

Autism Spectrum Disorder

Gold standard diagnostic tools and screening instruments for ASD.

7 tools

ADOS-2 Ages 12 months to adult

Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, 2nd Edition

International gold standard semi-structured observational assessment for ASD. Five age-calibrated modules assess communication, social interaction, play, and restricted-repetitive behaviors.

ADI-R Ages 2 years to adult

Autism Diagnostic Interview, Revised

Comprehensive caregiver interview used alongside ADOS-2 for definitive ASD diagnosis. Covers social development, communication, repetitive behaviors, and developmental history.

M-CHAT-R/F Ages 16 to 30 months

Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers, Revised with Follow-Up

Evidence-based early ASD screening with structured follow-up interview to reduce false positives. Free-access and recommended for routine well-child visits.

SCQ Ages 4 years and above

Social Communication Questionnaire

40-item parent questionnaire for ASD screening and differential diagnosis. Lifetime and current versions available for tracking developmental history.

SRS-2 Ages 2.5 years to adult

Social Responsiveness Scale, 2nd Edition

Measures severity of social impairment and autistic features in everyday settings. Sensitive to the broader autism phenotype across parent and teacher informants.

CARS-2 Ages 2 years and above

Childhood Autism Rating Scale, 2nd Edition

Clinician-rated severity scale across 15 developmental domains, validated in South Asian populations. Standard and high-functioning versions available.

ISAA Ages 3 to 22 years

Indian Scale for Assessment of Autism

India-specific autism assessment scale developed at NIMHANS, designed with Indian sociocultural norms. Covers social relationship, communication, and repetitive behaviors.

Mood Disorders

Validated measures for depression, mania, and related mood conditions.

6 tools

CDI-2 Ages 7 to 17 years

Children's Depression Inventory, 2nd Edition

Self-report depressive symptoms covering negative mood, interpersonal problems, ineffectiveness, anhedonia, and negative self-esteem. Parent and teacher forms allow multi-informant comparison.

PHQ-A Ages 12 to 17 years

Patient Health Questionnaire for Adolescents

Adolescent depression screen with a supplementary suicidal ideation item, making it suitable for routine clinical screening and risk monitoring.

CDRS-R Ages 6 to 17 years

Children's Depression Rating Scale, Revised

Clinician-administered gold standard depression severity measure. Sensitive to change and widely used in paediatric clinical trials and treatment monitoring.

MFQ Ages 6 to 17 years

Mood and Feelings Questionnaire

33-item self-report and parent-report mood screen with strong psychometric validity across diverse populations. Free to use in clinical and research settings.

RADS-2 Ages 11 to 20 years

Reynolds Adolescent Depression Scale, 2nd Edition

30-item adolescent depression self-report with four subscales: dysphoric mood, anhedonia, negative self-evaluation, and somatic complaints.

YMRS Ages Adolescent and adult

Young Mania Rating Scale

Clinician-administered 11-item mania severity scale widely used for paediatric bipolar disorder and hypomania assessment and treatment monitoring.

Anxiety Disorders

Instruments for assessing fear, worry, and anxiety across multiple presentations.

5 tools

Trauma, PTSD and Stress

Comprehensive tools for assessing traumatic stress across childhood and adolescence.

5 tools

Suicide Risk and Self-Harm

Clinical instruments for assessing suicidal ideation, intent, and self-injury.

4 tools

Language, Learning and Motor

Neurodevelopmental tools for language, academic achievement, and motor skills.

6 tools

CELF-5 Ages 5 to 21 years

Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals, 5th Edition

Comprehensive language evaluation across receptive and expressive domains, language memory, and pragmatic skills. Gold standard for language disorder diagnosis.

PPVT-5 Ages 2 to 90 years

Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, 5th Edition

Standardised receptive vocabulary assessment requiring no verbal response. Useful for children with limited speech or where language is a testing barrier.

WJ-IV Ages 2 to 90 years

Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Achievement

Broad-band academic achievement assessment covering reading, mathematics, written language, and oral language. Provides comprehensive ability-achievement comparisons.

Beery VMI-6 Ages 2 to adult

Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration, 6th Edition

Visual-motor integration assessment identifying perceptual and fine motor deficits. Widely used to detect difficulties underlying handwriting and academic performance.

MABC-2 Ages 3 to 16 years

Movement Assessment Battery for Children, 2nd Edition

Motor skills assessment covering manual dexterity, ball skills, and balance. The standard tool for identifying Developmental Coordination Disorder.

NSB-2 Ages 6 to 14 years

NIMHANS SLD Battery, 2nd Revision

Revised NIMHANS battery for identifying specific learning disabilities in Indian school-aged children across reading, writing, and arithmetic domains.

Eating, Feeding and Somatic

Measures for disordered eating, feeding concerns, and somatic complaints.

4 tools

Family, Parenting and Social

Tools assessing parenting stress, family functioning, and social perception.

4 tools

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