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A Useful Test Battery to Guide
Programming for Children with CFIDS
By Robert Sedgwick,
EdD
Educational
Testing
- Test of basic skills: WRAT3 (Wide Range
Achievement Test) and WIAT
- Passage Reading: Diagnostic Reading
Scales, Gilmore
- Writing Sample: Informal or TOWL (Test
of Written Language)
Cognitive
(Neuropsychological) Tests
- Global Cognitive Ability: WISC-III
(Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
- Verbal versus Nonverbal Reasoning:
WISC-III
- Fatigue and Verbal Expression: WISC
Verbal subtests, California Verbal Learning Test
- Visual Analysis and Reasoning: Block
Design, Object Assembly, Rey-Osterrieth
- Attention/Concentration: WISC
Arithmetic, WISC Digit Span, Cancellation Test, Stroop
- Organization: Rey-Osterrieth Complex
Figure Test
- Flexibility: Wisconsin Card-Sorting Test
- Motor Speed/Dexterity: Klove Pegboard,
WISC Coding
- Memory
Social/Emotional
Assessment
- Diagnostic Interview
- Projective Testing
- Personality Inventories: MMPI (Minnesota
Multiphasic Personality Inventory)
For further information, please contact Dr. Robert Sedgwick at the
following address:
The Cambridge Hospital
Children's Developmental
Center
16 Camelia Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
From the Connecticut
CFIDS
Association's Children's Conference.
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