Identifying and classifying learning disabilities

Changes made to the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children – Third Edition by psychologists working in child services

“…Intellectual assessments have also been commonly used to help establish an individual's cognitive strengths and weaknesses, learning support needs and if they have a profile that is suggestive of specific learning difficulties e.g. dyslexia, or learning disability (Canivez & Watkins, 1998;Evers & Hill, 1999). As well as looking at overall profiles, scores on individual sub-tests of the Wechsler scales have also been used to indicate specific learning difficulties (Kaufman, 1979) and neuropsychological deficits (Rourke et al, 1983).…”