Reitan Neuropsychological Laboratory is the licensed manufacturer and vendor for the Halstead-Reitan Batteries......

Some of the tests in the Halstead-Reitan Battery have been produced by other manufacturers. Only the tests sold by Reitan Neuropsychology Laboratories, Inc. are the same as those on which the original standardization and validation data were obtained.

The reader/purchaser should be aware that different versions of the tests may produce scores that do not correspond with the standardization data, and, at least in some instances, have been found to lead to incorrect clinical conclusions.

Hundreds of papers have appeared in the literature which have investigated various hypotheses relevant to interpretation of results obtained with the tests in the Halstead-Reitan Batteries. The Halstead-Reitan Batteries have been more extensively researched and validated than any other instruments for assessing brain-behavior relationships.

A Brief Description of the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Test Batteries

The Halstead-Reitan Battery was developed as a battery rather than as a series of individual tests. Therefore, each test in the Battery must be administered properly to avoid invalidation of the overall results (Reitan & Wolfson, 1993).

Psychologists are asked to:

• evaluate brain-behavior relationships,

• give an opinion about the presence of brain disease or damage,

• plan rehabilitation programs, and

• testify in court regarding their neuropsychological evaluations.

Normative results and clinical interpretations based on the original test results are important in meeting these responsibilities.

Three batteries of tests have been developed to evaluate the brain-behavior functioning of individuals.

• The adult battery, the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Test Battery for Adults is used with persons 15 years of age and older.

• The older children's battery, the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Test Battery for Children was designed for children aged 9 through 14 years and is essentially similar to the adult battery (Reitan & Wolfson, 1992).

• The younger children's battery, the Reitan-Indiana Neuropsychological Test Battery for Children was designed for use with young children aged 5 through 8 years.

The Neuropsychological Deficit Scale (NDS) for Adults gives normative ranges for all variables in the Halstead-Reitan Battery. The Neuropsychological Deficit Scale for Older Children and the Neuropsychological Deficit Scale for Young Children were developed in 1987. (more info)

The use of level-of-performance scores, as indicated by normative tables, is by itself inadequate to interpret results for individual subjects. In fact, the Halstead-Reitan Batteries have been deliberately composed to permit use of several methods of inference regarding brain-behavior relationships. These methods and illustrations of individual interpretation are noted in a number of publications.