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Child and Adolescent Memory Profile (ChAMP)
Availability
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Classification
Supplemental: Mitochondrial Disease (Mito)
Short Description of Instrument
The ChAMP is a norm-referenced test of memory and learning intended for use with children, adolescents, and young adults (ages 5-21). It is a comprehensive tool that allows both memory screening and in-depth memory evaluation. There are four subtests. Administration time for the full subtest is 35 minutes and screening index is 10 minutes.
Comments/Special Instructions
  • Focused on learning - every subtest contains multiple learning trials

  • Uses common, real-life scenarios to test memory
Scoring and Psychometric Properties
Scoring:
  • Provides a Total Memory Index, Verbal Memory Index, Visual Memory Index, Immediate Memory Index, Delayed Memory Index, and Screening Index

 
Psychometric Properties:
  • Based on a large normative sample of more than 1,200 participants representative of the 2012 US population

  • Includes a large clinical sample of more than 200 children with learning disability, ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, and brain injury

  • Supported by strong evidence of reliability and validity
Rationale/Justification
Strengths:
  • Brief and easy to administer

  • Minimizes demands on language and motor skills

  • Built-in validity indicator

  • Reliable change scores available

 
Weaknesses:
  • Visual memory subtests are only recognition based
References
Key Reference:
Sherman E, Brooks B. Children and Adolescent Memory Profile (ChAMP). Lutz, FL: PAR; 2015.
 
Additional References:
Brooks BL, MacAllister WS, Fay-McClymont TB, Mish S, Vasserman M, Sherman EMS. Brief memory assessment in children: can the ChAMP Screening Index detect memory impairment? Child Neuropsychol. 2023 Oct 2:1-11.
 
Brooks BL, MacAllister WS, Fay-McClymont TB, Vasserman M, Sherman EMS. Derivation of New Embedded Performance Validity Indicators for the Child and Adolescent Memory Profile (ChAMP) Objects Subtest in Youth with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. Arch Clin Neuropsychol. 2019 Jun 1;34(4):531-538.
 
Wilson K, Lesica S, Donders J. Clinical Utility of the Child and Adolescent Memory Profile (ChAMP) After Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury. Assessment. 2022 Mar;29(2):309-316.
 
Document last updated March 2024