One hundred 9–16-year-old children with traumatic brain injury
(TBI) completed the California Verbal Learning Test–Children's
Version (CVLT–C) and the Children's Category Test (CCT) within
1 year after injury. Performance contrasts between these two instruments
that were unusually large (> 16 T score points) were about as
common in this clinical sample as in the standardization sample of both
instruments. However, relatively poor performance on the CVLT–C as
compared to the CCT was associated with prolonged coma and lower scores on
the Processing Speed index of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for
Children–Third Edition. It is concluded that a relative weakness on
the CVLT–C is more likely to reflect cerebral compromise after
pediatric TBI than is a relative weakness on the CCT. (JINS,
2005, 11, 386–391.)