Problem related to childs performance on the wisc


Problem: You are a psychologist who has just had a 12 year old child named referred to you for an intelligence test using the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children 5 (WISC-5). In the referral letter you are notified that the child has been struggling with her written work and verbal skills in the classroom and is falling behind her classmates. She is also seeing a different psychologist already for emotional issues. The intelligence test is being conducted to determine whether the poor performance is due to the associated emotional difficulties they is experiencing or whether there is some other underlying deficit that is causing the poor performance in class. The results of the WISC show that the child does indeed have a deficit in her verbal IQ score that seems to account for the poor performance in the classroom. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of sharing this information related to the child's performance on the WISC with each of the following groups of people in child's life: the child, Childs teacher and child's parents.

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