title: Assessing the accuracy of the WISC-IV seven-subtest short form and the child and adolescent intellectual disability screening questionnaire in identifying intellectual disability in children.
abstract: Little research has been conducted into the accuracy of abbreviated assessments in identifying children and young people with an intellectual disability (ID). The present study compared two such methods in a clinical population of individuals with (n = 106) and without (n = 170) ID: a 7-subtest short form of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scales for Children--fourth edition (WISC-IV) proposed by Crawford and colleagues and the Child and Adolescent Intellectual Disability Screening Questionnaire (CAIDS-Q). Both the CAIDS-Q and the WISC-IV short form had high and comparable levels of predicting group classification (88% and 91% correct classification, respectively). Both methods would appear to offer clinicians and researchers an efficient and accurate means of identifying those who are likely to have ID. The WISC-IV short form was slightly more accurate, but the CAIDS-Q may offer the advantages of being shorter to administer and having no requirement for the user to have a particular qualification or training.
authors.affiliation: a Clinical Psychology , University of Edinburgh , Edinburgh , United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: McKenzie
authors.forename: Aja L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Murray
authors.forename: Kara R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Murray
authors.forename: George C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Murray
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*; D014888:Wechsler Scales / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
keywords: Intellectual disability; Screening tool; Short-form intellectual assessment