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Rehabilitation and Therapy

Dominican University of California

2014

Children’s Kitchen Task Assessment

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Exploring The Utility Of The Children’S Kitchen Task Assessment For Use With Six-Year-Olds, Vanessa Mae Clemente Carzon, Charisa Justine Kelly, Alexandra Maria Rodriguez May 2014

Exploring The Utility Of The Children’S Kitchen Task Assessment For Use With Six-Year-Olds, Vanessa Mae Clemente Carzon, Charisa Justine Kelly, Alexandra Maria Rodriguez

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Objective The Children’s Kitchen Task Assessment (CKTA) is an ecologically valid assessment that was designed to assess executive functioning skills in children age 7-10. Currently there is a lack of ecologically valid assessments that test executive functioning in children under seven years of age. For this reason, this study explored the utility of the CKTA for use with six-year-olds.

Methods This study used an exploratory, qualitative, case study design to facilitate its implementation and used quantitative data to make qualitative inferences about the results. Children were given the CKTA and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-IV Digit Span), a …