The Behavior Assessment Battery for School-Age Children Who Stutter

The Behavior Assessment Battery (BAB) is a multi-dimensional set of inter-related, evidence-based, self-report tests that provide normative data for children between the ages of six and fifteen. The Battery has evolved and been refined over many years and has been used with an innumerable number of clients all over the world. The test procedures include: The Speech Situation Checklists (SSC-ER and SSC-SD) for evaluating a child's emotional reaction to, and speech disruption in a range of speech situations The Behavior Checklist (BCL) reveals the particular coping responses that a child uses to deal with dysfluency The Communication Attitude Test (CAT) for measuring a childs attitude about his or her speech These self-report test procedures provide speech pathologists and their professional colleaguesincluding teachers, psycho- and neurolinguists, clinical and educational psychologists, behavior therapists, and pediatricianswith a multi-dimensional view of how a child is affected by how he or she feels, reacts to, and thinks about his or her speech.