This paper aims to make recommendations from a previous study that demonstrated different levels creativity can be distinguished from one another on the grounds of common characteristics. Children with learning disabilities were found to differ quantitatively and qualitatively from their peers and they showed a qualitative difference in their extent of creativity compared to normal children albeit younger deemed on the same level of creativity.
Waverly hospital for children with learning disabilities uses a functional assessment of creativity to screen candidates for a school day centre program with those assessed as functioning on levels of norm awareness or norm compliance being suitable for selection.
The study aimed to compare the results of the creative ability assessment with a standardized test to determine any correlation.
15 children sampled in the previous study were assessed with the Vineland Social Maturity Scale. Children who were assessed to be above the social age of 7 years old on the Vineland Scale were found to have corresponding levels of norm awareness and norm compliance on the creative ability assessment.
The author concluded that using a functional assessment of creative ability provides a clinically valid screening method that is functional and time efficient.