Advanced Clinical Solutions for the WAIS®-IV and WMS®-IV enhances the clinical utility and expands the construct coverage of these respected tests. The new ACS tool provides a common and related sample linking WAIS®-IV, WSM®-IV, executive function, social cognition, and daily living.
Advanced Clinical Solutions for the WAIS®-IV and WMS®-IV enhances the clinical utility and expands the construct coverage of these respected tests. The new ACS tool provides a common and related sample linking WAIS®-IV, WSM®-IV, executive function, social cognition, and daily living.
Additional scores, indexes, norms, and subtests to assist in WAIS-IV and WMS-IV evaluations.
Age Range:Individuals 16:0 – 90.11 years
Scoring Option:Computer Scoring
Completion Time:Varies depending on administration
Scores/Interpretation:Additional Index Scores, Error Scores, Effort Scores, Reliable Change, Pre-Morbid IQ, Social Perception, and Demographically Adjusted Norms
Publication Date:2009
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.
Neuropsychologists and general clinicians can use ACS with special populations in a variety of settings, including:
ACS offers newly developed subtests, and additional indexes and scores (including demographically adjusted norms) for WAIS-IV and WSM-IV. These components are:
Obtaining the scores and information described above may require users to own additional WAIS-IV and/or WMS-IV scoring software programs. See the table below for full details of software required to obtain respective functionality desired.
Serial Assessment – Case Study (PDF − 418 KB)
Demographic Adjustment – Case Study (PDF – 293 KB)
Premorbid Prediction – Case Study (PDF – 291 KB)
Suboptimal Effort – Case Study (PDF – 301 KB)
ACS Overview (PPT − 191 KB)
Social Perception Deficits after Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury (INS 2010) (PDF −47 KB)
Social Perception Deficits in Adolescent and Adult Autism Spectrum Disorders (INS 2010) (PDF −53 KB)
Read a draft version of Chapter 1 of the manual (PDF − 130 KB)
This pre-recorded 20-30 minute session allows you to learn at your leisure. All you need is access to the Internet and the sound enabled on your computer. Please keep in mind that the session may take a few minutes to load.
In less than 20 minutes, you can learn from instructor Gloria Maccow about the essential components of the new Advanced Clinical Solutions (ACS) for WAIS®-IV and WMS®-IV. The session will provide you with an overview regarding how the ACS helps you learn more about a client’s strengths and needs with measures and scoring procedures related to memory, effort, social cognition, premorbid functioning, and daily living.
Presenter: Gloria Maccow, PhD & Anne-Marie Kimbell, PhD
The assessment of suboptimal effort is an important function performed by clinical psychologists, forensic psychologists, and neuropsychologists. In cases that could involve substantial secondary gain to the examinee, e.g., large monetary awards, it is especially important for psychologists to demonstrate that the examinee’s performance is consistent with the nature of his or her injury or clinical condition, i.e., that the results are valid. Thus, it is common for medical-legal evaluations and other litigation cases to include measures of symptom validity. This one-hour webinar will describe several measures of symptom validity used by psychologists to assess reported psychiatric symptoms and cognitive impairments.
Date: Mar 13, 2012
