Analysis of the Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Test Battery:
Revised Children's Version
The Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery (LNNB) created by Charles Golden, based on the previous work of Russian neuropsychologist A.R. Luria, is a neuropsychological battery that was originally developed to evaluate and measure neuropsychological deficiencies, specifically, in the learning, experience, and cognitive skills of adults ages fifteen and older. Golden later revised his work to evaluate children ages 8 through 12, which he named the Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery: Children's Revision (LNNB-C). Similar to the original version, the LNNB-C is a standardized test used diagnose cognitive deficits in the localization and lateralization of brain impairments and assist in the planning of rehabilitation (Golden, …show more content…
This battery adequately measures specific neuropsychological functioning in several areas including language and intellectual abilities, and the nonverbal auditory, visual-spatial, and motor skills of children ages 8 through 12. Clinicians and researchers should use caution when administering this battery, being aware of psychometric and conceptual deficiencies with respect to item generation, ensuring a reliable representation of the results.
Overall, the LNNB-C has proven to be a reliable instrument in diagnosing the general and specific cognitive deficits of children, as well as, assisting and evaluating the best rehabilitation programs' suited for these children. When using the LNNB-C in conjunction with other test batteries (e.g. the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children), this battery shows the discriminant validity of those tests by being able to better identify the manifestation of milder forms of brain dysfunction in children (Golden,
Revised Children's Version
The Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery (LNNB) created by Charles Golden, based on the previous work of Russian neuropsychologist A.R. Luria, is a neuropsychological battery that was originally developed to evaluate and measure neuropsychological deficiencies, specifically, in the learning, experience, and cognitive skills of adults ages fifteen and older. Golden later revised his work to evaluate children ages 8 through 12, which he named the Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery: Children's Revision (LNNB-C). Similar to the original version, the LNNB-C is a standardized test used diagnose cognitive deficits in the localization and lateralization of brain impairments and assist in the planning of rehabilitation (Golden, …show more content…
This battery adequately measures specific neuropsychological functioning in several areas including language and intellectual abilities, and the nonverbal auditory, visual-spatial, and motor skills of children ages 8 through 12. Clinicians and researchers should use caution when administering this battery, being aware of psychometric and conceptual deficiencies with respect to item generation, ensuring a reliable representation of the results.
Overall, the LNNB-C has proven to be a reliable instrument in diagnosing the general and specific cognitive deficits of children, as well as, assisting and evaluating the best rehabilitation programs' suited for these children. When using the LNNB-C in conjunction with other test batteries (e.g. the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children), this battery shows the discriminant validity of those tests by being able to better identify the manifestation of milder forms of brain dysfunction in children (Golden,