Brief report : the level and nature of autistic intelligence revisited
- Owing to higher performance on the Raven’s Progressive Matrices (RPM) than on the Wechsler Intelligence Scales (WIS), it has recently been argued that intelligence is underestimated in autism. This study examined RPM and WIS IQs in 48 individuals with autism, a mixed clinical (n = 28) and a neurotypical (n = 25) control group. Average RPM IQ was higher than WIS IQ only in the autism group, albeit to a much lesser degree than previously reported and only for individuals with WIS IQs <85. Consequently, and given the importance of reliable multidimensional IQ estimates in autism, the WIS are recommended as first choice IQ measure in high functioning individuals. Additional testing with the RPM might be required in the lower end of the spectrum.
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| Author: | Sven BölteORCiDGND, Isabel Dziobek, Fritz PoustkaGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-67469 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-008-0667-2 |
| ISSN: | 1573-3432 |
| ISSN: | 0162-3257 |
| Pubmed Id: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19052857 |
| Parent Title (English): | Journal of autism and developmental disorders |
| Publisher: | Springer Science + Business Media B.V. |
| Place of publication: | Dordrecht [u. a.] |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2009/06/24 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2008 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2009/06/24 |
| Tag: | child psychiatry; cognition; pervasive developmental disorders; psychometrics; testing |
| Volume: | 39 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Page Number: | 5 |
| First Page: | 678 |
| Last Page: | 682 |
| Note: | Open Access: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
| Source: | Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39, S. 678-682 ; http://www.springerlink.com/content/5803h01478m6t560/ ; doi:10.1007/s10803-008-0667-2 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 214528375 |
| Institutes: | Medizin / Medizin |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell 2.0 |
