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Diagnosis and Remediation of Learning Problems: Comments on the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 October 2015

John R. Kirby
John R. Kirby*
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University of Newcastle
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If you are a psychologist interested in children with learning problems, the odds are high that one of your main assessment tools is the WISC—R (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children — Revised). Yet the WISC—R has come under heavy criticism in recent years, because of the lack of a theoretical rationale for the subscales as measures of intelligence, and the lack of a rationale connecting the assessment measures with remedial procedures. In this paper I'll briefly review these criticisms, and concentrate primarily upon reviewing a recently released test battery (the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children) which claims to overcome these two criticisms.

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Research Article
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The Educational and Developmental Psychologist , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , November 1985 , pp. 13 - 15
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Copyright © Australian Psychological Society 1985

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