PMID- 10658516
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20000229
LR  - 20191024
IS  - 0036-5564 (Print)
IS  - 0036-5564 (Linking)
VI  - 40
IP  - 4
DP  - 1999 Dec
TI  - Interpreting the WPPSI subtests scores of language impaired children--a 
      structural approach.
PG  - 319-28
AB  - The problem of characterising more specifically the cognitive requirements 
      involved in subtests from standardised measures of intelligence represents a main 
      problem in the research on exceptional populations. Seventy-five specifically 
      language impaired (SLI) preschool children and 49 normally developing children 
      were administered the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence 
      (WPPSI). The scaled scores on the WPPSI were categorised according to Bannatyne's 
      suggested regrouping to determine whether the pattern Spatial > Conceptual > 
      Sequential could be observed in the data. The predicted pattern was only 
      partially confirmed for language impaired children. The scaled scores on the 
      WPPSI were then recategorized according to their structural complexity. Since 
      structurally complex tasks contain more categories than the structurally simpler 
      tasks, the pattern structurally Simple > Moderate > Complex was predicted and 
      confirmed for language impaired children. Furthermore, it was hypothesized that 
      the structurally Complex categories would discriminate better between 
      language-impaired children and normally developing children than any other 
      recoded categories. This hypothesis was confirmed. The low scores obtained by 
      language impaired children on structurally Complex categories were interpreted as 
      the result of capacity limitations in information processing rather than a 
      deficit of any particular mental ability.
FAU - Ottem, E
AU  - Ottem E
AD  - National Centre for Logopedics, Oslo, Norway.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - Scand J Psychol
JT  - Scandinavian journal of psychology
JID - 0404510
SB  - IM
MH  - Child
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Intelligence
MH  - Language Development Disorders/*diagnosis/psychology
MH  - Male
MH  - Psychometrics
MH  - Reference Values
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Wechsler Scales/*statistics & numerical data
EDAT- 2000/02/05 09:00
MHDA- 2000/03/04 09:00
CRDT- 2000/02/05 09:00
PHST- 2000/02/05 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2000/03/04 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2000/02/05 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1111/1467-9450.404132 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Scand J Psychol. 1999 Dec;40(4):319-28. doi: 10.1111/1467-9450.404132.