Description
NB: Only available to Republic of Ireland clients who meet the qualification code criteria below.
Author(s): David Wechsler
Publication Year: 2013
Age Range: 2 years 6 months to 7 years 7 months
Administration: Core Subtests: Ages 2 years 6 months to 3 years 11 months; 30–45 Minutes, Ages 4 years to 7 years 7 months; 45–60 Minutes
Qualification Code: C – Click HERE for more details.
Users & Applications
Clinical Psychologists, Educational Psychologists, and Neuropsychologists working in schools, clinics, hospitals, universities and forensics use the WPPSI–IVUK to help:
- Identify and qualify students with cognitive delays for special services
- Evaluate children for cognitive delays, learning difficulties, autism and giftedness
- Determine the impact of traumatic brain injury on cognitive functions in children
- Scoring Options
Key Features:
- New working memory subtests
- New processing speed measures
- Expanded factor structure
- Improved developmental appropriateness
- More efficient test administration
- Improved clinical utility
- Updated and improved psychometric properties
Content & Administration
Based on the most current literature in the field and feedback from experts and clinicians, the WPPSI–IVUK includes extensive content changes including new processing speed measures, the addition of working memory subtests and an expanded factor structure that includes new and separate visual spatial and fluid reasoning composites for ages 4 years to 7 years 7 months.
New Working Memory subtests
Picture Memory and Zoo Locations, the two new working memory subtests provide age appropriate, engaging tasks for children as young as 2 years 6 months. These reliable and child-friendly measures were specifically designed to help detect emerging working memory difficulties for early intervention.
