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- Title
WISC-IV and WIAT-II Profiles in Children With High-Functioning Autism.
- Authors
Mayes, Susan Dickerson; Calhoun, Susan L.
- Abstract
Children with high-functioning autism earned above normal scores on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fourth Edition (WISC-IV) Perceptual Reasoning and Verbal Comprehension Indexes and below normal scores on the Working Memory and Processing Speed Indexes and Wechsler Individual Achievement Test-Second Edition (WIAT-II) Written Expression. Full Scale IQ (FSIQ) and reading and math scores were similar to the norm. Profiles were consistent with previous WISC-III research, except that the new WISC-IV motor-free visual reasoning subtests (Matrix Reasoning and Picture Concepts) were the highest of the nonverbal subtests. The WISC-IV may be an improvement over the WISC-III for children with high-functioning autism because it captures their visual reasoning strength, while identifying their attention, graphomotor, and processing speed weaknesses. FSIQ was the best single predictor of academic achievement.
- Subjects
AUTISM in children; WECHSLER Intelligence Scale for Children; SHORT-term memory; ORAL communication; REASONING; ACADEMIC achievement; WECHSLER Individual Achievement Test
- Publication
Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, 2008, Vol 38, Issue 3, p428
- ISSN
0162-3257
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10803-007-0410-4