Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children

Miss Natasha Reed was referred for evaluation by her third grade teacher. The teacher expressed all of her concerns when it came to Natasha’s reading abilities. Her reading fluency was slow and extremely delayed however that was because she could only sound out a few words at a time. Even though she is in the third grade, Natasha is stuck reading at a first grade level. I have included a diagnosis below as well as providing reasons and feedback as to why I chose this diagnosis and what…

The patient is aware that she is terminally ill and the medical bills for her condition is a financial burden on her children. Therefore, the psychologist believes that she wants to end her life, not to ease her own suffering, but to ease her children’s financial burden. The client has completed the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale. Her scores did not indicate a cognitive impairment or provide evidence of a mental…

1930's and 1940's tests standardized on white children were administered to other races without investigation for test bias. White children scored highest in these tests and black children the lowest ( Foxcroft & Roodt, 2005). Psychologists used the international Stanford Binet intelligence test; the South African revision of which later became known as the Fick Scale. In1929 Fick noticed the unfairness of the test when applied to black school children, and tried to correct this by using…

In the 1800s, the term “idiot savant” was used for these children. Almost 100 years later, Treffert suggested people with this condition be categorized as having “savant syndrome” or being “autistic” (2010, p.…