Vineland Adaptive Behaviour Scales | Third Edition

Audience:

This workshop is designed for professionals who evaluate adaptive behaviour as part of comprehensive assessments. It is ideal for practitioners seeking greater confidence in administering, scoring, interpreting, and applying Vineland-3 results in clinical, educational, and community-based settings.

Course description:

Thursday 3 December 2026
5:00 pm – 8:45 pm GMT

This half-day workshop provides practical training in the administration, scoring, and interpretation of the Vineland-3, with a special emphasis on conducting and scoring the Comprehensive Interview Form. Participants will learn best practices for gathering high-quality adaptive behaviour information from caregivers and teachers, establishing rapport during interviews, eliciting accurate responses, applying scoring rules, and avoiding common administration errors. The session will also review the Parent/Caregiver, Teacher, and Domain-Level Forms, including guidance on selecting the most appropriate form for a given referral question. In addition, participants will learn how to use Vineland-3 results to identify adaptive behaviour strengths and weaknesses, support eligibility and diagnostic decision-making, inform intervention planning, and monitor meaningful functional outcomes over time.

A training consultant will contact you one week before the session date with the Zoom link for registration.
Places must be purchased by Monday 30 November.
Each participant in attendance must have a purchased place. To be eligible for available CPD credits, participants are required to register individually, log in on their own device, and attend the entire session.

View the course overview, learning outcomes, agenda, presenter information, and disclosure.

Learning objectives:  

After attending this session, participants will be able to:

• Describe the structure, purpose, and clinical applications of the Vineland-3.
• Administer and score the Vineland-3 Comprehensive Interview using standardised administration procedures and best-practice interviewing techniques.
• Differentiate among the Comprehensive Parent/Caregiver forms, Comprehensive Teacher forms, and Domain-Level Forms and select the most appropriate form (or combination of forms) based on referral needs.
• Interpret Vineland-3 scores and patterns of adaptive functioning to identify individual strengths and areas of need.
• Apply Vineland-3 results to support diagnostic and eligibility decisions, intervention planning, treatment recommendations, and progress monitoring.