Vineland Social Maturity Scale
# Vineland Social Maturity Scale

The Vineland Social Maturity Scale is a psychometric assessment instrument designed to help in the assessment of social competence. It was developed by the American psychologist Edgar Arnold Doll and published in 1940. He published a manual for it in 1953. Doll named it after the Vineland Training School for the Mentally Retarded, where he developed it.

## Details

The test consists of 8 sub-scales measuring:

* Communication skills
* General self-help ability
* Locomotion skills
* Occupation skills
* Self-direction
* Self-help eating
* Self-help dressing
* Socialization skills
