Title
WISC-III and WAIS-III in intellectual assessment of blind people
Other title
[WISC-III e WAIS-III na avaliação da inteligência de cegos]
Date Issued
01 January 2007
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
do Nascimento E.
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Publisher(s)
Universidade Estadual de Maringa
Abstract
Owing to the almost lack of a national research on psychological testing for the evaluation of blind people, a psychometric study has been developed with the WISC-III and WAIS-III verbal scales. After adaptations in stimuli and instructions, scales were applied to 120 children and 52 adults in Belo Horizonte MG Brazil. Results show that modified verbal scales had a good internal consistency (? > 0.80) and the factorial analysis clearly indicated the presence of a single principal component. Actually it explains a total of 81% and 64% for WISC III and WAIS III respectively. Since adaptations do not affect the factorial structure of the above-mentioned scales, professionals may use the modified scales to measure the intelligence of blind people.
Start page
627
End page
633
Volume
12
Issue
3
Language
(Other)
OCDE Knowledge area
Psicología
Oftalmología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-45349104839
Source
Psicologia em Estudo
ISSN of the container
14137372
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus