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Rajabpour Azizi Z, Akhavan Tafti M, Mohsenpour M. Dyslexia and the Pattern of Strengths and Weaknesses: Wechsler Intellectual Profile of Students with Dyslexia. ijpb 2021; 15 (1) : 6
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Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran
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This study aimed to identify the pattern of strengths and weaknesses of students with dyslexia based on their Wechsler intellectual profiles. We obtained 119 Wechsler intelligence test results of male and female students with dyslexia from SLD centers. The data from four primary index scores (VCI, PRI, WMI, and PSI) were extracted and analyzed. The highest scores belonged to PRI (98.22), comprising block design (10.45), matrix reasoning (9.7), and picture concepts (8.6). The lowest means were observed on WMI (78.2), with the highest and lowest average in digit span (8.24) and number-letter sequencing (4.12), respectively. The performance of these students in overall perception, general visualization, visual-spatial information processing, discovery of nonverbal relationships, and fluid reasoning was superior to their other cognitive features, e.g., digit span and letter-number sequencing.
Article number: 6
Keywords: dyslexia, pattern of strengths and weaknesses (PSW), intellectual profile, Wechsler intelligence test (WISC-IV), primary index scores
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Received: 2022/05/27 | Revised: 2022/09/1 | Accepted: 2022/09/5 | Published: 2022/12/3
Received: 2022/05/27 | Revised: 2022/09/1 | Accepted: 2022/09/5 | Published: 2022/12/3
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