Rivermead Perceptual Assessment Battery
Author(s): Susan Whiting, Nadine Lincoln, Janet Cockburn and Gitu Bhavnani

• Suitable For:Occupational Therapists, Clinical Psychologists and Neuropsychologists
• Age Range:16 - 97 years
• Administration:Individual
• Timings:45 - 50 minutes

Rivermead Perceptual Assessment Battery provides a preliminary assessment of a client's level of visual perceptual ability prior to therapy. The results may be used to plan an appropriate therapy programme.
The test includes 16 sub-tests:

• Picture Matching
• Object Matching
• Size Recognition
• Series
• Missing Article
• Sequencing-Pictures
• Right/Left Copying Words
• Colour Matching
• Three-Dimensional Copying
• Cancellation
• Figure-Ground Discrimination
• Animal Halves
• Body-Image Self-Identification
• Body Image
  

The degree of visual-perceptual deficit is calculated by comparing the client's visual-perceptual score with that which would be expected for some of the same pre-morbid intelligence levels

Monitors changes which are due to treatment or natural recovery over time
Can be used following a stroke or head injury to assess a client's level of visual perceptual deficit