Table of Contents

Series Preface.
Acknowledgments.


Authors.


One: Introduction and Overview.


Two: How to Administer the WISC-IV.


Three: How to Score the WISC-IV.


Four: How to Interpret the WISC-IV.


Five: Strengths and Weaknesses of the WISC-IV.


Six: Clinical Applications: A Review of Special Group Studies
with the WISC-IV and Assessment of Low-Incidence Populations.


Seven: Clinical Applications: Assessment of Gifted, Learning
Disabled, and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse
Populations.


Eight: The WISC-IV Integrated.


Nine: Illustrative Case Reports.


Contents of the CD-ROM.


The WISC-IV Data Management and Interpretive Assistant (WISC-IV
DMIA) v1.0, and automated program for WISC-IV Interpretation.


Norms Tables for WISC-IV Clinical Clusters.


Information for Linking WISC-IV Results to Educational
Strategies and Instructional Supports.


Appendix A: Definitions of CHC Abilities and Processes.


Appendix B: CHC Abilities and Processes Measured by Current
Intelligence Tests.


Appendix C: WISC-IV Subtest g-Loadings, by Age Group and Overall
Sample.


Appendix D: Psychometric, Theoretical, and Qualitative
Characteristics of the WISC-IV.


Appendix E: WISC-IV Interpretive Worksheet.


Appendix F1: General Ability Index (GAI) Conversion Table: U.S.
and Canadian Norms.


Appendix F2: Cognitive Proficiency Index (CPI) Conversion
Table.


Appendix G: Summary of Analyses of WISC-IV Indexes.


Appendix H: Norms Tables for Clinical Clusters.


Appendix I: Linking WISC-IV Assessment Results to Educational
Strategies and Instructional Supports.


References.


Annotated Bibliography.


Index.


About the CD-ROM.

About the Author

Dawn P. Flanagan, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Director of the School of Psychology Training Programs at St. John's University in Jamaica, NY, and Clinical Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center. She is the author or coauthor of several popular books in the Essentials series, including Essentials of WJ III Cognitive Abilities Assessment and Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment. Alan S. Kaufman, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at Yale University's Child Study Center in the School of Medicine and the Series Editor with Nadeen L. Kaufman of Wiley's Essentials of Psychological Assessment series. Dr. Kaufman worked closely with David Wechsler in the development and standardization of the WISC(R)-R, an earlier version of the test; has written numerous books on the Wechsler Scales and intelligence testing; and is the author of several popular assessment instruments used worldwide.