Every test asks a child to perform. Only one asks a child to speak.

In 2001, the U.S. Surgeon General's landmark report Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity declared that culture counts — and cited the research of TEMAS creators Costantino, Malgady, and Rogler five times: their culturally sensitive therapy for Puerto Rican children, their studies of bias in the mental health evaluation of Hispanic patients, their work on how language itself shapes diagnosis. The report named the field's central failure — tests never normed for the children they judge.

Validated across the United States, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Peru, Italy, and Bulgaria. Used in schools, clinics, and courts around the world.

TEMAS is not finished. It never was. The decade ahead holds new language editions waiting to be validated, new norms for new populations, a new generation of cards, and TEMAS Narrative Trauma Therapy™, a treatment growing out of the assessment itself. TEMAS not yet in your language? That is not a gap. That is an invitation. If you are a researcher, clinician, translator, or publisher who believes a child should be tested in a world they recognize, talk to us. The form below reaches us directly. Partner with us. The story has room for you.