Zelazo Information Processing Procedure™

Journal Abstracts concerning the Zelazo IPP™ assessment.

Infant-Toddler Information Processing
Assessment for Children with PDD and Autism
Philip R. Zelazo, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology and Associate Professor of Pediatrics
McGill University and Montreal Children's Hospital
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Running Head:
Information Processing Assessment
(Infants & Young Children: July 1997; 10(1): 1-14 1997 Aspen Publishers, Inc.)

Abstract:
Conventional tests of infant-toddler development confound the measures used to infer mental ability with the child's disability. A new approach involving assessment of central information processing ability is described as a complement to conventional tests that permits the identification of intact mental ability in the face of pervasive developmental delays and autism. Intact processing ability along with a profile of expressive development not only allows for a differential diagnosis but permits more accurate assessment of mental ability and more appropriate intervention strategies.

Key words:
infant-toddler; information processing; mental; assessment; autism; pervasive developmental disorder.

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