NEPSY-2

[Jenny Ponzuric]

Question from a colleague that I couldn't find the answer to:

In the interpretive manual for the Theory of Mind test it describes comparing performance on the Contextual tasks versus the Verbal tasks, yet there is no specific score for the Contextual tasks. On what basis am I to determine if a child has “good performance” on the Contextual tasks? Any errors at all?

 

“A separate score is calculated for the Verbal task items. The results on this score should be compared to their performance on language subtests to see if language is a confounding problem. If the child has language deficits but can demonstrate good performance on the Contextual task, the nonverbal section, this would suggest Theory of Mind is present but language adversely affected performance on the Verbal task.  The nonverbal Contextual tasks call on Theory of Mind skills because the child must relate to how another would feel in a certain social context. Affect Recognition and the ability to understand another’s perspective must be linked to the social context depicted when the child selects the correct picture from the four choices of affect. If performance is poor on both parts, or is not significantly better on the contextual task than the verbal task, the child is not able to demonstrate theory of mind skills assessed in this subtest.”

[Bert Green]

I agree that not having a score or percentile for nonverbal TOM  is a problem.  I sometimes report number correct out of total and give the % correct on non-verbal.  I also reason that if there is a discrepancy between verbal Tom and total TOM then the nonverbal is affecting the Total score.  In short I use descriptions in performance for the nonverbal TOM.  

Hope this helps

Bert 

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