On the first trial, while the directions are being given to the child and the examiner is naming the pictures, the pictures are exposed to the child. For the second and third trials, the directions are given before the card is exposed. Care should be taken to administer this subtest in the sequence presented in the record form. This will assure that the intervening subtests are not likely to interfere with the content of the Recall of Objects subtest. It may at times be useful to item analyze the objects recalled on each trial to develop some hypothesis about the strategies that the child is employing to remember the objects.
Examiners can accelerate recording by omitting vowels and using other abbreviations.
However, if the child asks if it is all right to repeat words, briefly and quietly reassure the child that it does not matter. The Manual may cause some trouble because it lists, in the tables for converting ability scores to T scores, the column entries for Recall of Digits after the columns for Recall of Objects. This is opposite to the order in which the subtest scores appear on the protocol summary form. Consequently, examiners must be alert to avoid the mistake of entering the wrong column when starting with Recall of Digits. Also the Record Form places the Raw Score to Ability Score conversion table for the Immediate trials next to the box for recording the child's responses on the Delayed trial.