Griffiths III Mental Development Scales is a restricted test that is available only to the holders of an ARICD Certificate of Registration as User. The certificate can only be obtained through a recognised Griffiths III training course. Only holders of such certificates can purchase and use the Griffiths III.
Griffiths Training Courses are open to paediatricians and psychologists, and approved Allied Health Professionals.
The Scales measure development trends which are significant for intelligence, or indicative of functional mental growth in babies and young children. In the GMDS-ER, development was measured up to 8 years of age. The new Griffiths III measures maturation up to 6 years.
Griffiths III represents an evolution in developmental assessment, based on the latest research and theory, and building on the best of the past. Griffiths-III is a child-friendly, play-oriented measure for assessing the rate of development in infants from birth to 6 years. Griffiths-III is the product of a thorough re-standardisation of the Griffiths Mental Development Scales (GMDS) – described as the “gold standard” in child development testing. The standardisation was conducted by the Association for Research in Infant and Child Development (ARICD) and completed in 2015 using a representative sample from the UK and Ireland.
All Griffiths kits, manuals, and other related material can be purchased from Hogrefe.co.uk.
