Wechsler Intelligence Quotient Profiles of Children and Adolescents with Specific Learning Disorder
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Objective : This study examined how the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Third Edition (WISC-III) scaled score profile reflects the various subtypes of specific learning disorder by investigated the correlation between the WISC-III subtests scaled score and scores obtained from the Wide Range Achievement Test-Thai Edition (WRAT-Thai).
Materials and methods : The study was performed as a retrospective chart review (RCR). Data were collected from the medical records of children and adolescents, specifically, children aged 6-17 years old who were diagnosed with specific learning disorders (SLD) and had an average IQ, or full scale IQ (FSIQ) ≥ 90. All 89 cases data were collected from the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
at Siriraj hospital.
Results : The analyses revealed that some IQ profiles (Full scale IQ and Verbal IQ), indices (Verbal Comprehension Index and Freedom from Distractibility Index), and subtests from WISC-III (Information, Similarities, and Digit Span) were statistically significantly different from every part of the WRAT-Thai test (reading, spelling and math). This showed that specific learning disorder related to a subject’s general
knowledge, word understanding, memory, and attention and focus.
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เรื่องที่ลงตีพิมพ์ในวารสารจิตวิทยาคลินิกแล้วถือเป็นลิขสิทธิ์การเผยแพร่โดยวารสารจิตวิทยาคลินิกแต่เพียงผู้เดียว การตีพิมพ์หรือเผยแพร่ซ้ำในที่อื่นต้องได้รับอนุญาตจากกองบรรณาธิการวารสารฯ
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