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WISC‐III profiles for children with and without learning disabilities
Author(s) -
Dickerson Mayes Susan,
Calhoun Susan L.,
Crowell Errin W.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1520-6807(199810)35:4<309::aid-pits1>3.0.co;2-v
Subject(s) - psychology , learning disability , wechsler intelligence scale for children , intelligence quotient , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , cognition , psychiatry
The degree of WISC‐III intersubtest scatter was normal and similar for 66 children with LD and 51 children without LD, but the pattern of scores differed. In the 8‐ to 16‐year‐old sample, children with LD scored lower on the Freedom from Distractibility Index relative to FSIQ than children without LD. This difference was found in both the ADHD and nonADHD subgroups, suggesting that children with LD may have an attention deficit even if they do not meet the diagnostic criteria for ADHD. The CAD profile was evident in the mean scores for both the LD/ADHD and LD/nonADHD subgroups, but it was not found among the lowest subtest scores for any of the nonLD subgroups. Though WISC‐III profile types were apparent in LD group data, only a minority of individual children with LD actually had these profiles. In the 6‐ and 7‐year‐old group, children with and without LD were indistinguishable on the WISC‐III, which may reflect the difficulty of ruling out LD at this young age. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.