Advanced Clinical Solutions for the WAIS®-IV and WMS®-IV

Powerful new tool increases the clinical utility of the WAIS-IV and WMS-IV.

ACS for WAIS-IV and WMS-IV is designed to enhance the clinical utility and expand the construct coverage of these respected tests. This new tool provides a common and related sample linking WAIS-IV, WSM-IV, executive function, social cognition, and daily living.

Uses & Applications:

Neuropsychologists and general clinicians can use ACS with special populations in a variety of settings, including:

• Demographically Adjusted Norms
• With older adults to assess dementia, daily living skills, and reliable change
• In forensic settings to measure pre-morbid IQ and effort
• With individuals who have traumatic brain injury to assess executive function and social perception

Content & Administration

ACS offers newly developed subtests, and additional indexes and scores (including demographically adjusted norms) for WAIS-IV and WSM-IV. These components are:

Test of Pre-Morbid Functioning (Formerly WTAR):

• Provides an estimate of pre-morbid intellectual functioning
• Has been revised and re-normed with WAIS-IV and WMS-IV
• Now offers software to make scoring easier and flexible
• Has been enhanced by the addition of harder words and an extended IQ range of predictability

Word Choice

• Provides effort scores when combined with embedded items in WAIS-IV and WMS-IV

Social Cognition

• Social Cognition provides an assessment of an individual’s ability to understand non-verbal communication and social interactions
• Uses visual both stimulus and audio cues

D-KEFS Trails and Verbal Fluency

• Now correlated to WAIS-IV and WMS-IV
• Includes Number, Letter, and Number/Letter Sequencing Conditions from D-KEFS Trail Making tests
• Includes Letter, Category, and Category Switching from D-KEFS Verbal Fluency test

Additional scores for WAIS-IV and WMS-IV include:

• Demographically Adjusted Norms
• Social Perception
• Executive Function
• Error Scores
• Effort Scores
• Additional Index Scores
• Reliable Change Scores
• Pre-Morbid IQ Scores

Psychometric Information

Portions of ACS were standardized with WAIS-IV and WMS-IV using a nationally representative sample. Clinical studies have been conducted with the following groups:

• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
• Dementia/Alzheimer’s
• Mild Cognitive Impairment
• Schizophrenia
• Autism
• Asperger’s

Resources

For a quick overview of the new ACS (Advanced Clinical Solutions for the WAIS-IV and WMS-IV), view the following presentation:

ACS Overview (PPT – 191 KB)

Read a draft version of Chapter 1 of the manual (PDF – 130 KB)

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