The UNIT provides a fair assessment of intelligence for children and adolescents who have speech, language, or hearing impairments; who have different cultural or language backgrounds; or who are verbally uncommunicative.

Engaging and interesting to children across ethnicities and with special needs

• The UNIT’s use with African Americans, Asians, Hispanics, Native Americans, individuals with limited English proficiency, and those who are deaf/hearing impaired is documented in the manual.
• Diagnostic information relevant to common educational exceptionalities, including mental retardation, giftedness, and learning disabilities, is provided.
• UNIT subtests require multiple response modes, including use of manipulatives, paper-and-pencil completion, and pointing.

Five quotient scores provide comprehensive, reliable information

• Quotient scores include the Full Scale Intelligence Quotient, Memory Quotient, Reasoning Quotient, Symbolic Quotient, and Nonsymbolic Quotient.
• Normative data were collected from a comprehensive national sample of 2,100 children and adolescents. Reliability, validity, and fairness studies included more than 1,700 additional children and adolescents.
• Reliability coefficients are high. Validity studies show strong concurrent validity with many other measures of intelligence, and the UNIT appears to be a good predictor of academic achievement. Discriminant validity evidence demonstrates that the UNIT differentiates among individuals with mental retardation, learning disabilities, and speech/ language impairments and those who are gifted.

Software offers quick scoring solution

UNIT Compuscore enables examiners to compare scores quickly and easily as the software converts raw scores to scaled scores, allowing for changes in confidence bands and significance levels. After hand-entry of raw scores, the software generates an interpretive worksheet and a short narrative.