e. between 85 and 115) on a normal bell-shaped distribution. An abbreviated four-subtest version of the WAIS-III (called the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI)) has been released enabling clinicians to perform a validated verbal, performance and full-scale IQ in approximately 30 minutes.

Some clinicians use the WAIS with psychiatric illness or brain injury in order to assess impediments in cognitive reasoning, but use of the WAIS in this connection is controversial. The WAIS is also used as an instrument on a neurologically impaired population in order to link regions of the brain to specific variables of reasoning, as well as to gauge regions and extent of affected neural matter (the digit span, for instance, may be used to test attention and/or memory). Oftentimes, however, the WAIS-R NI (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised) is a preferred neuropsychological instrument. The WAIS was developed for average, brain-healthy individuals, and separate norms, patterned on the WAIS, are being developed for lesser cognitive functioning or brain damaged individuals.

Since I intend to go into education, I see knowledge of the Wechsler Scale as essential for my field, particularly...

Understanding the way it works would be helpful to my understanding the limits and advantages in using it to measure intelligence and how I need to integrate it with other measures and methods.
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