John Wiley & Sons Inc Intelligent Testing with the WISC-V

"Intelligent Testing with the WISC-V(R) "provides comprehensive guidelines to administering, scoring, and interpreting the latest edition of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children(R). This indispensable resource introduces an expanded test structure with additional subtests. The authors offer valuable advice on clinical applications and illustrate how to gain an understanding of a child's specific areas of strength and weaknesses and how to translate these cognitive assets and deficits into appropriate suggestions for intervention. "Intelligent Testing with the WISC-V(R) " Provides a broad-based interpretive system that integrates cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychology, clinical neuropsychology, and CHC theory. This allows you to select the method of interpretation that best meets the need of each particular child referred for examination. Features 17 clinical case reports of children and adolescents that illustrate a range of issues such as reading disorders, specific learning disabilities, autistic spectrum disorder, ADHD, and intellectual giftedness. Every report is focused on interpreting and communicating test results and behaviors for effective educational and clinical intervention. Written by international leaders in the field of assessment, these reports reflect an incredible diversity of theoretical perspectives and a remarkable array of clinical approaches to understanding children. "Joan Axelrod * Kristina Breaux * Carlea Dries * Ron Dumont * Katie Eklund * Dawn Flanagan * Elaine Fletcher-Janzen * Jill Hartmann * Emily Hartz * Alicia Jones * Elizabeth Lichtenberger * Michelle Lurie * Jennifer Mascolo * Nancy Mather * George McCloskey * Dan Miller * Elizabeth Power * Joel Schneider *Jaime Slonim * Jennie Kaufman Singer * Marsha Vasserman * John Willis" Emphasizes simplicity in the interpretive approach. The WISC-V(R) yields a wealth of scores - this book provides a system of profile interpretation that is built on rules of thumb and simple arithmetic. Includes six independent Buros-quality reviews of the WISC-V(R) by leaders in the field. "Cecil R. Reynolds & Megan Hadorn ""*"" John O. Willis ""*"" Daniel C. Miller & Ryan McGill ""*"" Jack A. Naglieri ""*"" George McCloskey ""*"" Gary L. Canivez & Marley W. Watkins" Introduces two new home-environment rating scales based on questions administered to the parents of the children and adolescents in the WISC-V(R) standardization sample. One scale is designed to predict academic failure, the other to predict delinquency.