My ds has not had any real IQ testing and I decided to get that done to
help with appropriate placement in school.
He is 7.5, dx pdd-nos/adhd and has strength in math reasoning but is
not reading yet. He will likely need some encouragement through the
tesing - last time the school tried he spent most of the time rolling on
the floor and whining. I would like a test that shows more clearly where
his strong and weak areas are. Someone recommended the WISC IV to
me. Anyone second that recommendation or any other suggestions.
Thanks
I should add that my ds is verbal with verbal skills close to his age level.
However he has auditory processing problems and problems with multi-
step instructions.
No experience but the nonverbal ones I have heard of include Leiter and TONI. Tzoya will pop in later to tell you more, I bet.
I had heard WISC is one of the MORE berbal ... no?
T had the Kaufman and the Wisc and came out about the same and I refuse to believe EITHER and decided not to further stress her by re-testing.
LEITER-R, TONI and UNIT are all non-verbal IQ tests that tend to get most accurate/useful results for ASD kids.
For standard (aka verbal based) IQ tests, it's hard to figure out whether an ASD child answered incorrectly because they didn't know the answer vs. they didn't understand the instructions. On the non-verbal tests, this is not an issue. I'd highly recommend going with one of the tests I listed above.
I would 2nd the Leiter-R. I just saw an article in "Science News" that autistic kids test better in non-verbal IQ tests than verbal. Results to be published in the August issue of Psychological Science. So there might be a peer-reviewed paper about something that seems obvious to most parents. I am working from memory but the non-verbal test that was used there was called something like the Raven's Progressive Matrices test.