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Essentials of WISC-V Assessment

Dawn P. Flanagan (Author), Vincent C. Alfonso (Author)

9781118980873, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 7 April 2017

656 pages
21.1 x 14 x 4.6 cm, 0.68 kg

The comprehensive reference for informative WISC-V assessment

Essentials of WISC-V Assessmentprovides step-by-step guidance for administering, scoring, and interpreting the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-V). Packed with practical tips for more accurate assessment, this informative guide includes numerous case studies that illustrate a range of real-world issues. Special attention is devoted to the assessment of individuals who have significant learning difficulties, such as learning disabilities, and who speak English as a second language. The WISC-V is a valuable assessment tool, but it must be administered and scored appropriately to gain meaning from score interpretation. This book gives you an in-depth understanding of the WISC-V assessment and interpretive process to assist practitioners in:

  • Conducting efficient and informative WISC-V assessments
  • Utilizing WISC-V in cross-battery and neuropsychological assessment
  • Applying WISC-V in the identification of specific learning disabilities
  • Utilizing WISC-V in nondiscriminatory assessment of English language learners
  • Writing theory-based WISC-V reports
  • Linking WISC-V findings to interventions based on individual performance

As the world's most widely-used intelligence test for children, the WISC-V is useful in diagnosing intellectual disabilities and specific learning disabilities, as well as in identifying giftedness. In this volume, sample reports demonstrate how WISC-V assessment results may be linked to interventions, accommodations, modifications, and compensatory strategies that facilitate positive outcomes for children. Essentials of WISC-V Assessment is the all-in-one practical resource for both students and practitioners. The book can be used on its own or with companion software (purchased separately) that provides a user-friendly tool for producing psychometrically and theoretically defensible interpretations of WISC-V performance, and may be used to develop interventions based on each child's strengths and weaknesses.

Acknowledgments xi

Series Preface xiii

Foreword xv
Susie Engi Raiford

One Overview of the WISC-V 1
W. Joel Schneider, Dawn P. Flanagan, and Vincent C. Alfonso

Two How to Administer the WISC-V 53

Three How to Score the WISC-V 133

Four How to Interpret the WISC-V 167

Five Strengths and Weaknesses of the WISC-V 279

Six A Neuropsychological Approach to Interpretation of the WISC-V 287
George McCloskey, Jamie Slonim, Robert Whitaker, Samantha Kaufman, and Naoko Nagoshi

Seven Use of the WISC-V in the Identification of Specific Learning Disabilities 405

Eight Illustrative Case Report 511
Erin M. McDonough

Nine Assessment of English Learners With the WISC-V 539
Samuel O. Ortiz, Kristan E. Melo, and Meghan A. Terzulli

Ten WISC-V and Q-interactive 591
Carlea Dries, Ron Dumont, and Kathleen D. Viezel

Epilogue Dorothea McCarthy Remembered 617
Alan S. Kaufman

Appendices A–F can be accessed and downloaded from https://www.wiley.com/Essentials+of+WISC-V+Assessment-p- 9781118980996

Appendix A A Brief Overview of the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) Theory

Appendix B Norms Tables for New WISC-V Clinical Composites

Appendix C Case Reports
Gail Cheramie, Jamie Chaffin, and Robert Lichtenstein

Appendix D Form for Manifestations of Cognitive Weaknesses

Appendix E Definition of Terms and Clarification of Concepts Used in the Dual Discrepancy/ Consistency Model of SLD and the Cross-Battery Assessment Software System (X-BASS)

Appendix F Task Characteristics of WISC-V Subtests
Marlene Sotelo-Dynega

About the Authors 621

Contributors 622

Index 623

Subject Areas: Psychology [JM]

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