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Brief
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Less than 30 minutes
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Portable/mobile
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Delivery outside the office, playing cards, drawing in the sand
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Easy to administer and interpret
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Neuropsychologists not always available in remote regions, administration with interpreter or cultural consultant
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Not timed
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Accuracy or ability more important
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Concrete, tangible, visual
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Less reliance on abstract processes. Interactive stimuli that can be physically manipulated
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No/plain/little language
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Interpretable into client’s first language
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Intuitive
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Little reliance on language
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Fun/engaging
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Game-like tasks, visually appealing
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Performance based – role modelling
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‘Do’ rather than ‘say’ tasks
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Practice
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Allows experience of success and learn by observation and doing
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Repeatable/sensitive to change
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Multiple alternate forms
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Not reliant on question/answer format
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Yarning/storytelling preferable
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Not reliant on literacy, numeracy
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Use ecologically relevant tasks
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Accessible
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Ideally freely available and widely accessible
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Standardised
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But modifiable administration and interpretation to include contextual info
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Utilise synchronous or simultaneous processing
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Spatial relations, contextually presented information
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Relevant and meaningful tasks
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Relationships, kinship mapping, yarning
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Familiar and relevant stimuli
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Animals, relationships, bush foods
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