This assessment was developed over the span of a decade by Dean Delis, Edith Kaplan, and Joel Kramer, and it was published in 2001.
[1] The D-KEFS offers a comprehensive portrayal of individual's EF skills, and the complexity of these tasks make them sensitive to the detection of even mild brain damage.
[3] In 2009, an abbreviated form of the D-KEFS was included in the Advanced Clinical Solutions (ACS) for the WAIS-IV and WMS-IV (published by Pearson/PsychCorp).
These values help identify whether the assessee's overall pattern of performance on the D-KEFS deviates markedly from the normal population (as generated using the Monte Carlo statistical method).
In turn, one's performance can be used to develop coping strategies and rehabilitation programs tailored towards individual's profile of strengths and weaknesses in executive functions.