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Dean, Raymond S. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1978
Determined if Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised subtest patterns would differentiate the performance of emotionally disturbed and learning-disabled children. Subtests differentiated significantly between diagnostic categories. Learning-disabled children performed predictively poorer on block design, picture arrangement, and object…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Emotional Problems, Intelligence Differences
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Barnhill, Gena; Hagiwara, Taku; Myles, Brenda Smith; Simpson, Richard L. – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2000
Results are reported of an analysis of Wechsler IQ scores of 37 children (ages 3-14) with Asperger syndrome. Data revealed cognitive patterns dissimilar to those of children with other autism related disorders and similar to many typically developing and achieving individuals.. Findings are discussed in reference to identification and intervention…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Asperger Syndrome, Children, Cognitive Ability
Jensen, Arthur R.; Osborne, R. Travis – 1979
Longitudinal data on the auditory forward and backward digit span (FDS and BDS) subtests of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) were obtained at five age levels (between 6 and 13), in samples of white and black children. Factor analysis and analysis of variance of the data were conducted to test 5 hypotheses, related to Jensen's…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Black Students, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes
Jensen, Arthur R.; Figueroa, Richard A. – 1975
The study sought to use Jensen's two-level theory of mental abilities to predict some hitherto unknown or unnoticed phenomena--facts about which the theory should yield clear-cut predictions and which are not as clearly predictable from other theories, though they may receive ad hoc explanations after the fact. From the two-level theory of mental…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students, Intelligence Differences