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The Woodcock-Muñoz Foundation Clinical Database Project (CDB) is an ongoing and expanding data collection
project designed to facilitate research that contributes to a better understanding of the neuropsychological
and cognitive basis of a variety of diagnosed cognitive, learning, and
mental exceptionalities. The CDB is a research database that includes detailed information on specific
cognitive abilities and sensory-motor abilities; it is indexed
by subject demographic information. Specific cognitive abilities include:
general intellectual ability, long-term retrieval, short-term/working
memory, comprehension-knowledge, fluid reasoning, cognitive processing
speed, auditory and visual-spatial processing, attention, listening, learning efficiency,
word finding/verbal retrieval, and aspects of executive functioning.
Specific achievement abilities include: reading, mathematics, written
language, and knowledge. The sensory and motor battery includes tests that evaluate
simple and complex visual, auditory, and tactile perception, and gross
and fine motor functioning.
Information included in the CDB is obtained from a number of sources,
including archived clinical records and clinical research studies.
Archived clinical records. The primary sources of CDB information
are archived subject records provided by a variety of collaborating
psychological and medical professionals. A standard research data collection protocol is used to
extract uniform and structured subject demographic and psychological test information from the archived clinical records.
Clinical research studies. New subject data is sometimes obtained
by the individual administration of standardized norm-referenced
psychological assessment instruments either directly by WMF research staff or by
referral sources staff (under the direction of and supervision by WMF research
staff). The database is analyzed by WMF research staff and independent researchers. Requests for additional information and for procedures for submitting a request to analyze portions of the WMF Clinical Database should be directed to Kevin S. McGrew, PhD, Research Director, at k.mcgrew@woodcock-munoz-foundation.org Back to The Woodcock-Muñoz Foundation Research Programs main page
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