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These new parent and teacher questionnaires assess children's executive function in home and school environments. The BRIEF is useful in evaluating 5- through 18-year-olds with developmental and acquired neurological conditions such as learning disabilities, ADHD, traumatic brain injury, low birth weight, Tourette's Disorder, and autism.
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Each BRIEF questionnaire includes 86 items on 8 nonoverlapping clinical scales and 2 validity scales: |
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Clinical Scales |
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Inhibit |
Initiate |
Organization of Materials |
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Shift |
Working Memory |
Monitor |
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Emotional Control |
Plan/Organize |
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Validity Scales |
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Negativity |
Inconsistency of Responses |
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These scales form two broader indexes: Behavioral Regulation and Metacognition. |
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Norms are based on ratings from 1,419 parents and 720 teachers from rural, suburban, and urban areas, reflecting the U.S. population in regard to SES, ethnicity, and gender distribution. Separate norm tables for teacher and parent ratings provide T-scores, percentiles, and 90% confidence intervals for four developmental age groups, by gender. |
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Requiring just 10 to 15 minutes to complete, the BRIEF is an efficient way to evaluate impairment of executive function in children and adolescents with neurological conditions.
BRIEF Software Portfolio (BRIEF-SP)
by Peter K. Isquith, Ph.D., and Gerard A. Gioia, Ph.D.
This comprehensive program gives you unlimited scoring and interpretation for the BRIEF, BRIEF-SR, and BRIEF-P. It generates three useful reports. An Interpretive Report gives the clinician T-scores and percentiles; intervention recommendations (educational, rehabilitative, and therapeutic); IEP goals and objectives; and an optional ADHD diagnostic classification. A Feedback Report summarizes test results for parents, teachers, and the examinee. And a Protocol Summary Report compares results from up to four different administrations (to the same client). |
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