There is an alternative to the IQ.
Another approach was indicated for understanding the intellectual functioning of the person considered to be retarded from the viewpoint of measured intelligence. Rather than utilizing the standard, usually academically-oriented, test, the inkblot method was used to differentiate how the individual deals with familiar and unfamiliar problems. The emphasis was not on the predetermined responses and verbal meanings of the test constructor, but the language and mode of perceiving, organizing, and responding of the individual to the problems presented to him.
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000175:diagnosis*; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D012392:Rorschach Test; D014705:Verbal Behavior