The Beery™ VMI is an easy-to-use and cost-effective screening tool that measures the extent to which individuals can integrate their visual and motor abilities. It screens for visual-motor deficits that can lead to learning, neuropsychological, and behaviour problems. The Beery VMI is available in both a Short Format as well as a Full Format, with the Short Format being used most often with children between the ages of 2 and 7 years. Both the Short and Full Format tests present drawings of geometric forms arranged in order of increasing difficulty that the individual is asked to copy. As a culture-free, non-verbal assessment, the Beery VMI is useful with individuals of diverse environmental, educational and linguistic backgrounds.
ASSESSMENT SCALES
Visual-Motor Integration
Visual Perception
Motor Coordination.
AREAS OF APPLICATION
The Beery VMI is suitable for respondents with diverse environmental, educational, and linguistic backgrounds. The test can be used to help:
Help parents better understand their child's current level of development using age norm information. The manual also presents teaching suggestions.
Identify individuals who may be encountering difficulties in visual-motor integration.
Use with individuals of diverse environmental, educational, and linguistic backgrounds as a culture-free, non-verbal assessment.
Supplemental Visual Perception and Motor Coordination tests use the same stimulus forms as the Short Format and Full Format tests.
Product Info
Training
None
Age range
Individuals ages 2 - 100 years
Administration time
Short Format and Full Format tests: 10–15 minutes each; supplemental Visual Perception and Motor Coordination tests: 5 minutes each
Norms
US norms
Languages
English
Administration Platform
Hand-scorable
Integrated reports
None
Author
Keith E. Beery, PhD, Norman A. Buktenica and Natasha A. Beery
Publisher
Pearson, All rights reserved.
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