Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence | Fourth Edition

he WPPSI-IV includes extensive content changes based on the most current literature in the field and feedback from experts and clinicians.

Benefits

• Identify and qualify students with cognitive delays for special services.
• Evaluate children for cognitive delays, intellectual disabilities, autism and giftedness.
• Determine admittance eligibility for private schools.
• Determine the impact of traumatic brain injury on cognitive functions in children.
• Determine cognitive ability of children in question during custody hearings.

Features

The WPPSI-IV places a strong emphasis on child-friendly features. The latest version of this test also includes new processing speed tasks.

• Simplified and shortened instructions for children.
• Demonstration, sample and teaching items, used whenever possible to ensure clarity of task demands.
• Two new working memory subtests that provide age-appropriate, engaging tasks for children as young as 2.5 years old.
• Three levels of interpretation: Full scale, Primary Index scale and Ancillary Index scale levels.
• Three new game-like subtests that offer engaging art and use an ink dauber to indicate responses, which minimizes fine motor demands.
• New and separate visual spatial and fluid reasoning composites for ages 4:0–7:7.