Pearson - Clinical and Talent Assessment - Australia and New Zealand

Powerful new tool increases the clinical utility of the WAIS-IV and WMS-IV.

ACS for WAIS-IV and WMS-IV is designed to enhance the clinical utility and expand the construct coverage of these respected tests. This new tool provides a common and related sample linking WAIS-IV, WSM-IV, executive function, social cognition, and daily living.

Uses & Applications:

Neuropsychologists and general clinicians can use ACS with special populations in a variety of settings, including:

• Demographically Adjusted Norms

• With older adults to assess dementia, daily living skills, and reliable change

• In forensic settings to measure pre-morbid IQ and effort

• With individuals who have traumatic brain injury to assess executive function and social perception

Content & Administration

ACS offers newly developed subtests, and additional indexes and scores (including demographically adjusted norms) for WAIS-IV and WSM-IV. These components are:

Test of Pre-Morbid Functioning (Formerly WTAR):

• Provides an estimate of pre-morbid intellectual functioning

• Has been revised and re-normed with WAIS-IV and WMS-IV

• Now offers software to make scoring easier and flexible

• Has been enhanced by the addition of harder words and an extended IQ range of predictability

Word Choice

• Provides effort scores when combined with embedded items in WAIS-IV and WMS-IV

Social Cognition

• Social Cognition provides an assessment of an individual’s ability to understand non-verbal communication and social interactions

• Uses visual both stimulus and audio cues

D-KEFS Trails and Verbal Fluency

• Now correlated to WAIS-IV and WMS-IV

• Includes Number, Letter, and Number/Letter Sequencing Conditions from D-KEFS Trail Making tests

• Includes Letter, Category, and Category Switching from D-KEFS Verbal Fluency test

Additional scores for WAIS-IV and WMS-IV include:

Obtaining the scores and information described above may require users to own additional WAIS-IV and/or WMS-IV scoring software programs. See the table below for full details of software required to obtain respective functionality desired.

NOTE: This software is not Mac OS compatible.

Take your assessment of social cognition to the next level!
Developed by Australian authors and featuring local norms, TASIT provides an ecologically valid, in-depth evaluation of adults’ ability to understand complex emotional and interpersonal processes. Evaluate recognition of emotion from prosody, body language, and facial expressions, and recognition of complex interpersonal processes such as intention, sarcasm, and duplicity. TASIT can also be used as an intervention tool for use with patients with identified deficits in social processes.

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