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Gesell Developmental Schedules

Arnold Gesell established the Yale Clinic of Child Development and developed the Gesell Developmental Schedules to provide a standardized way to assess a child's motor, adaptive, language, and personal-social development through observation. The schedules yield a Developmental Quotient rather than an IQ and plot a child's behaviors within typical developmental intervals. While providing a quick view of development, critics note the Gesell Tests do not account for all factors and results can vary depending on the child and examiner.

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Gesell Developmental Schedules

Arnold Gesell established the Yale Clinic of Child Development and developed the Gesell Developmental Schedules to provide a standardized way to assess a child's motor, adaptive, language, and personal-social development through observation. The schedules yield a Developmental Quotient rather than an IQ and plot a child's behaviors within typical developmental intervals. While providing a quick view of development, critics note the Gesell Tests do not account for all factors and results can vary depending on the child and examiner.

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Gesell Developmental

Schedules

By Zeyad Chreim
Author
• Arnold Gesell
• Professor at Yale
University
• Established the Yale
Clinic of Child
Development
• He believed that a
child’s behavior
develops in a
patterned
predictable way.
“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.”
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.
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)
Four Fields

• Motor - Kick large • Adaptive – Cube,


balls, Walks on tiptoe, Paper and pencil and
Skips, Jumps in place, incomplete man
Jumps down, Stands
on one foot, Standing
board jump, Hops on
one foot and
Throwing and
catching beanbags
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 child’s behavior level
Critics

• The Gesell • A child may • In order to


Tests do not be given a prevent a
take into lower skewed test
account other Developmental result a child
problems that Quotient should be
a child might given a vision
have. and hearing
test.
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
Four Fields

• Language – Interview, discriminates


prepositions, digit repetition, picture
vocabulary and comprehension questions

• Personal-Social – Feeding, dressing, play,


communicative and temperament
For More Information

Thank you for attending this presentation


For more information please visit the
following site:

Arnold Gesell Links

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