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Brief report: The use of the Leiter International Performance Scale with autistic children

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This paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using the Leiter International Performance Scale with autistic children and presents the results of a study comparing the performance of 18 autistic children on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised and the Leiter. The results showed a high positive correlation between the WISC-R full scale IQ, the WISC-R performance IQ, and the Leiter IQ. There was no significant difference between the mean Leiter IQ and the mean WISC-R performance scale IQ, but there was a significant difference between the mean Leiter IQ and the mean WISC-R full scale IQ. There was a low correlation between the WISC-R verbal IQ and the Leiter IQ, and the means were significantly different. Reading attainment scores correlated positively with both the WISC-R IQ and the Leiter IQ.

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  1. Institute of Psychiatry, London

    Amitta Shah & Nan Holmes

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We are grateful to the head teacher, staff, and pupils of the Sybil Elgar School for Autistic Children for their cooperation in the study.

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Shah, A., Holmes, N. Brief report: The use of the Leiter International Performance Scale with autistic children. J Autism Dev Disord 15, 195–203 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01531605

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