Cognitive Abilities and Lipomyelomeningocele

1993 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 467-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
William N. Friedrich ◽  
David B. Shurtleff ◽  
Joyce Shaffer
Keyword(s):  
Motor Skills ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Child Behavior Checklist ◽  
Behavioral Characteristics ◽  
Wide Range Achievement Test ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Developmental Test ◽  
Visual Motor ◽  
Perceptual Motor Skills ◽  
Wide Range Achievement

Ten children with lipomyelomeningocele were evaluated with the WISC—R, the Wide Range Achievement Test—Revised, the Developmental Test of Visual-motor Integration, and the Child Behavior Checklist. These children were consecutive referrals to a birth defects clinic. Unlike their meningomyelocele counterparts, as a group these children appear to be average in their intellectual, academic, and behavioral characteristics. However, they exhibited low average perceptual motor skills, a feature more commonly seen in meningomyelocele.

Characteristics of Third-Grade Learning Disabled Children

1981 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 224-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy L. Cullen ◽  
Frederic J. Boersmam ◽  
James W. Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Achievement Test ◽  
Affective Development ◽  
Wide Range Achievement Test ◽  
Visual Motor Integration ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Visual Motor ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Grade 3 ◽  
Wide Range Achievement

The Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration, the Wide Range Achievement Test, and the Student's Perception of Ability Scale were administered to 70 learning disabled and 73 normally achieving grade-3 children who had been stratified on full-scale WISC-R IQ scores. WISC-R Verbal-Performance differences, Wide Range Achievement Test, and Student's Perception of Ability scores all differentiated between the two groups, but significant differences were not obtained for visual-motor integration skills. The results are discussed in terms of conducting research with samples matched on IQ and the importance of remedial procedures focusing on verbal, cognitive, and affective development.

Williams Syndrome: Features in Late Childhood and Adolescence

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-91
Author(s):  
Roberta A. Pagon ◽  
Forrest C. Bennett ◽  
Beverly LaVeck ◽  
Katherine B. Stewart ◽  
Jennifer Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Williams Syndrome ◽  
Motor Skills ◽  
Behavioral Characteristics ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Performance Expectations ◽  
Reading Abilities ◽  
History Of ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
Visual Motor

Nine children with the Williams syndrome were evaluated for physical, neurodevelopmental, and behavioral characteristics to record the natural history of this disorder. The study subjects, who ranged in age from 10 years to 20 years, generally showed lower than expected cognitive functioning with four of the nine functioning in the severely retarded range. However, all the children showed uneven developmental profiles, compared to measured IQ, with reading abilities exceeding the expected level and visual-motor skills deficient for overall performance expectations. All but one child had evidence of supravalvular aortic stenosis on echocardiography, but there was little morbidity from cardiovascular disease in this group of patients. Although all had grown at or below the fifth percentile in early childhood, seven now were above the fifth percentile for height. Personality attributes that characterize younger children with Williams syndrome persisted in this group of older children.

Relationship between the Wide Range Achievement Test 3 and the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test

1998 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 963-967 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa D. Smith ◽  
Billy L. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Achievement Test ◽  
Wide Range Achievement Test ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Individual Achievement ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Mean Differences ◽  
Education Resource ◽  
Wide Range Achievement

The present study examined the relationship between the Wide Range Achievement Test 3 and the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test for a sample of children with learning disabilities in two rural school districts. Data were collected for 87 school children who had been classified as learning disabled and placed in special education resource services. Pearson product-moment correlations between scores on the two measures were significant and moderate to high; however, mean scores were not significantly different on Reading, Spelling, and Arithmetic subtests of the Wide Range Achievement Test 3 compared to those for the Basic Reading, Spelling, and Mathematics Reasoning subtests of the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test. Although there were significant mean differences between scores on Reading and Reading Comprehension and on Arithmetic and Numerical Operations, magnitudes were small. It appears that the two tests provide similar results when screening for reading spelling, and arithmetic.

scholarly journals Desempenho acadêmico de estudantes do segundo segmento do ensino fundamental examinado por uma adaptação do wide range achievement test (WRAT 3)

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 209
Author(s):  
Gilberto N. O. Brito
Keyword(s):  
Achievement Test ◽  
Wide Range Achievement Test ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Para Determinar ◽  
Wide Range Achievement

OBJETIVOS: examinar o desempenho acadêmico de escolares brasileiros do 6º. ao 9º. ano através de uma adaptação das formas Azul e Marrom do Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT3-TDA3). MÉTODO: o desempenho de 722 escolares (281 meninos e 441 meninas com idade média de 13,5 anos, DP= 1,4) foi avaliado. Os dados foram analisados através de uma análise multivariada de variância para determinar a relação entre o desempenho no Ditado, Aritmética e Leitura e características demográficas das crianças, história de repetência, dominância manual, e disfunção auditiva e visual. RESULTADOS: a forma do teste (Azul e Marrom) teve um efeito significativo e, por isso, os dados foram examinados separadamente para cada forma do TDA3. Demonstrou-se que o sexo, idade, etnia, ocupação materna e paterna, história de repetência e disfunção auditiva e visual estavam significativamente associados ao desempenho nos subtestes Ditado, Aritmética e Leitura de ambas as formas. Além disso, a idade e dominância manual apresentaram efeitos significativos no desempenho dos subtestes da forma Azul e escolares com disfunção auditiva ou visual mostraram um desempenho pior nos subtestes da forma Marrom em comparação com os escolares sem qualquer disfunção. CONCLUSÃO: é possível que o perfil do desempenho acadêmico dos escolares documentado no presente estudo esteja relacionado com aspectos fundamentais da linguagem e pesquisa nesta direção está atualmente em andamento.

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