assessment 3

• a comparison score. measures the difference between 2 scores rather than against age related peers.
• 1 score is the control and the other is the dependent
• e.g. is memory for what they saw lower than memory for what they heard.
• auditory memory is the control, visual memory is the dependent.

• hearing
• language impairment
• visual difficulties
• poor attention
• low IQ
• impaired executive functioning/

• you cant diagnose
• language could be a factor
• don't over0-interpret
• index score has more meaning than subtest scofe

• read a stpry and recall immediately and after a delay.
• paired words, recall immediately and after a delay

• thinking process (gist or verbatim/linear)
• attempt to cover deficit with extra detail or crazy talk

• recall and draw
• recall where spatial info was located

both immediately and after a delayt

wais is auditory/verbal e.g. arithmetic digit span, letter number sequencing

WMS is visual only and includes spatial addition