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APPLICABILITY OF THE WAIS‐R: its use with people with mental handicaps
Author(s) -
Jones Robert
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
journal of the british institute of mental handicap (apex)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.633
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1468-3156
pISSN - 0261-9997
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-3156.1987.tb00426.x
Subject(s) - wechsler adult intelligence scale , psychology , popularity , intelligence quotient , mental age , wechsler preschool and primary scale of intelligence , scale (ratio) , mentally retarded , wechsler intelligence scale for children , clinical psychology , stanford–binet intelligence scales , developmental psychology , psychiatry , cognition , social psychology , cartography , geography
Ever since the introduction of the Binet Simon Scale in 1905, psychologists have been involved in the quantitative assessment of intellectual handicaps through psychometric means. Although more recently decreasing emphasis has been placed on psychometric measurement of intelligence quotient (IQ) as the major variable in the assessment of mental handicap (Clark, 1974; Mittler, 1970), intelligence scales are still widely used as an assessment aid. Since introduction of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) in 1955 it has been used by psychologists in addition to the Stanford‐Binet Scale. Recent surveys attest to the continuing popularity of both (Porteaus, 1983). In 1981, the WAIS was revised, restandardised, and published as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale – Revised (WAIS‐R). This paper considers the usefulness of the WAIS‐R to psychologists working with people who are mentally handicapped.