test for mental and physical abilities and disabilities

1. PREPARED BY:
Mrs. Aakanksha Bajpai
Nursing Lecturer
Rama University

2. Mental abilities generally known
as higher mental function like
intelligence, orientation, memory,
attention, concentration, abstract
thinking, judgment and insight.
INTRODUCTION

3. DEFINITION
Physical and mental ability: it is the quality of
being able to perform physical and mental acts.
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Physical and mental disability: the condition of
being unable to perform as a consequence of
physical or mental unfitness.
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4. DOMAINS OF MENTAL
FUNCTIONS
DOMAINS TESTS
Intellectual functions Bhatia’s battery performance test
Language functions Multilingual Aphasia Examination
Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination
Sensory-perceptual functions  Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological
Battery
 Tactual Performance Test and
Sensory Perceptual Examination

5. DOMAINS OF MENTAL
FUNCTIONS
DOMAINS TESTS
Executive functions Wisconsin Card Sorting Test
Stroop Test
Trail Making Test
Block Design Subtests
Visuospatial processing Hooper Visual Organization Test
Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure-
Copy condition
Block Design Tests
Motor speed and strength Finger Tapping Task

6. BHATIA’S PERFORMANCE
BATTERY OF TEST
It has five subtests:
i. Koh’s Block Design Test
ii. Alexander Passalong test:
 It was a component of W. P. Alexander’s Performance
scale. This allocated children aged 11 to different types
of secondary school.
 The child moved the blocks around a tray to match a
predetermined design.
 The test was devised in 1937.
 It was published by the University of London Press the
same year.

7. BHATIA’S PERFORMANCE
BATTERY OF TEST
iii. Pattern Drawing Test
iv.Immediate Memory of Sounds: In the memory test,
consonants or digits are to be repeated in the same order
first and then backwards.

8. BHATIA’S PERFORMANCE
BATTERY OF TEST
Picture Completion Test: Five pictures cut out into
2,4,6 or 12 parts are to be assembled in the
shortest possible time to gain maximum scores.

9. Wisconsin Card Sorting
Test (WCST)
 It is a neuropsychological test of "set-shifting", i.e.
the ability to display flexibility in the face of
changing schedules of reinforcement.
 The WCST was written by David A. Grant and
Esta A. Berg.

10. Wisconsin Card Sorting
Test (WCST)

11. TRAIL MAKING TEST

12. BLOCK DESIGN TEST

13. TESTS FOR MENTAL
DISABILITY

15. DENVER DEVELOPMENT
SCREENING TEST
 Commonly known as the Denver Scale, is a test for
screening cognitive and behavioral problems in
preschool children. It was developed by William K.
Frankenburg and first introduced by him and Josiah.B.
Dobbs in 1967.
 The DENVER II (1992) is a revision and update of the
Denver Developmental Screening Test, DDST (1967).

16. DENVER DEVELOPMENT
SCREENING TEST
Purpose:
To identify the developmental delay in
preschoolers.
To assist neurological function and to
detect neurological Problem like cerebral
palsy.
To detect problem in early infancy like
growth and development.

17. DENVER DEVELOPMENT
SCREENING TEST
The general functions assessed
through this test

19. Goodenough–Harris Draw-a-
Person test
Psychological projective personality or
cognitive test used to evaluate children and
adolescents for a variety of purposes.
Developed originally by florence
goodenough in 1926, this test was first known
as the goodenough draw-a-man test.

21. Physically ability tests
The PAT is designed to stimulate specific
job duties.
The tests are physically demanding &
could cause injury who is not physically
fit.
Before PAT one must undergo risk
assessment.

22. Physically ability tests
To evaluate the overall
performance there are 5 physically
demanding tests.

23. Physically ability tests
Grip
strength
test

24. SUMMARY & CONCLUSION

25.  “RAISE YOUR QUALITY STANDARDS AS
HIGH AS YOU CAN LIVE WITH, AVOID
WASTING YOUR TIME ON ROUTINE
PROBLEMS, AND ALWAYS TRY TO WORK
AS CLOSELY AS POSSIBLE AT THE
BOUNDARY OF YOUR ABILITIES. DO
THIS, BECAUSE IT IS THE ONLY WAY OF
DISCOVERING HOW THAT BOUNDARY
SHOULD BE MOVED FORWARD.”
― EDSGER W. DIJKSTRA