Description
NB: Only available to Republic of Ireland clients who meet the qualification code criteria below.
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The WAIS-IVUK (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale – Fourth UK Edition) provides you with the most advanced measure of cognitive ability in adults. Includes updated normative data for ages 16-90 years. It is designed to assess general cognitive functioning in adults with a variety of neurological conditions.
Benefits:
- Designed to assess general cognitive functioning in adults with a variety of neurological conditions
- Can be used as part of an assessment to identify
- learning difficulties
- intellectual giftedness
- cognitive strengths and weaknesses
- Guide treatment planning and placement decisions
- Provide clinical information for academic and neuropsychological evaluations
- Deliver reliable and valid data for research purposes
Features:
- Clinical utility
- Increased developmental appropriateness
- More efficient administration time
- Added teaching items to ensure understanding of task
- Reduced vocabulary-level for verbatim instructions
- Reduced emphasis on motor demands and timed performance
- Enlarged visual stimuli
- Enhanced user-friendliness
- Reduced testing time by an average of 15%
- Revised instructions for clarity and consistency
- Redesigned record form Increased portability
- Expanded sample responses
- Simplified technical manual organisation
- Included new clinically sensitive supplemental subtests
- Improved Psychometric Properties
- Updated norms
- Improved floors and ceilings
- Expanded FSIQ range
- Improved subtest and composite reliability
- Reduced item bias
- Updated structural foundations
- Transitioned from dual IQ to Index Score structure
- Consistency with WPPSI-III and WISC-IV
- Fewer Subtests yield FSIQ and 4 Index Scores (VCI, PRI, WMI, & PSI)
- New measure of fluid intelligence
- Developed new subtest to measure fluid reasoning (Visual Puzzles and Figure Weights)
Enhanced measures of working memory:
- Revise arithmetic to emphasize WM
- Revise digit span to emphasize WM (added Digit Sequencing)
- Retain auditory WM measures on WAIS, visuo-spatial WM Measures on WMS
Improved measure of processing speed:
- Reduce fine motor demands
- Included an additional supplemental subtest (Cancellation)
NEW SUBTESTS:
Visual Puzzles:
- Contributes to Perceptual Reasoning Composite
- More reliable measure than Object Assembly
- Requires no motor skills
Click HERE to see additional Sample Item
Which 3 of these pieces go together to make this puzzle?
Figure Weights:
- Contributes to Perceptual Reasoning Composite
- Measure of quantitative and analogical reasoning
- Requires no motor skills
Which one of these goes here to balance the scale?
Cancellation:
- Contributes to Processing Speed Composite
- Imbedded Stroop Effect
- Provides scores for omission and commission errors
When I say go, draw a line through each red square and yellow triangle.
