Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children

This is a vital clinical pearl.

When you administer a test like the WISC-IV, the Weschler Intelligence Scale for Children, children with ADHD often score average or even better on perceptual reasoning tasks.

Interesting.

This is the GVGF index, which measures visual processing and fluid reasoning.

So we are looking for a test where an ADHD brain performs normally if it can just focus.

Precisely.

The answer is average or above average scores on perceptual reasoning tasks, such as the GVGF index on the WISC-IV.

Children with ADHD often perform well on novel fluid reasoning tasks because their primary issue is behavioral inhibition, not global cognitive slowness.

to who? According to who?

According to the WISC, the Welshers Intelligence Test for Adults.

You know, the full-scale IQ test given by psychologists.

Yeah, the

But we can, like, this, like, I think IQ is just, like, you know, a standardized statistical norm.

And it measures how many, you know, standard deviations.

The WISC is for children.

There's the WACE as well.