Use of the Reynolds, Willson, and Clark WAIS-R short form in a brain-injured population: A cautionary note

William N. Robiner; Daniel E. Dossa; William T. O'Dowd

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Use of the Reynolds, Willson, and Clark WAIS-R short form in a brain-injured population: A cautionary note

William N. Robiner, Daniel E. Dossa, William T. O'Dowd

Medicine - Geriatrics, Palliative and Primary Care (GPPC)

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A short form (Information, Arithmetic, Picture Completion, and Block Design) of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R) developed by Reynolds, Willson, and Clark (1983) was used to estimate Full Scale IQ in brain-injured persons. Estimated IQ correlated .91 with WAIS-R Full Scale IQ, but overestimated IQ by a mean of 5.94 points. The pattern of overestimating IQ with brain-injured persons (p < .001) suggests that the Reynolds et al. short-form (RWCSF) procedure is not appropriate for brain-injured patients and raises questions about its use with other individuals who have cognitive or neurological impairments.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	91-95
Number of pages	5
Journal	Clinical Neuropsychologist
Volume	11
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13854049708407035
State	Published - 1997

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