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The Kaufman Assessment shelling for Children (KABC)The Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children is designed by Alan Kaufman and Nadeen Kaufman in 1983 for assessing mental processing and cognitive ontogenesis in children. It was revised in 2004 as the KABC -II. First edition is employ for children between the ages of 2,5 and 12,5 whereas the revised edition is used for children and adolescents between 3 and 18 years of age.There are two theoratical models in KABC-II. They are the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) psychometric model of broad and narrow abilities and Lurias neuropsychological theory of processing. KABC-II consists of 18 subtests of two types core and supplemantary. These subtests are grouped into 4 or 5 scales according to age and model. Lurias model has Sequential Processing Scale, coincidental Processing Scale, Learning Ability and Planning Ability. CHC model has same scales and it renames them. They are Short Term Memory (Gsm), Visual Processing (Gv), presbyopic Term S torage and Retrieval (Glr) and Fluid Reasoning (Gf) respectively. Also it has integrity more scale which name is Know...