tenementfu wrote:
I had a Neuropsych Eval. I scored 120+ on the performance part of the test and barely 100+ on the verbal.
I won't have the summary of the eval until next week.
In the meantime, can someone help me make sense of those scores? I mean, the discrepancy between the performance & verbal IQs indicate that something's going on, but I was under the impression that Aspergeans and Autists and even ADHDers would score the other way around: high on verbal, low on performance.
Can someone help me make sense of my scores? Could it mean that I have ADHD rather than Asperger's?
The subjects Hans Asperger described had high verbal IQ's though I don't believe he mentioned much about their performance IQ except for noting his subjects seemed above average in intelligence.
AS is often indistinguishable for NVLD in which subjects have scatter such that they have high verbal IQ's and low performance IQ's. It was often thought that AS was distinguished from HFA in that the strengths and weakness were flipped. Someone with HFA would have been expected to have low verbal IQ's and high performance IQ.s However a recent study using a version of the WAIS-III on adults with AS and adults with HFA found that the adults with AS did not have higher than usual verbal IQ's but did have higher performance IQ's than the HFA group.
I think this shift is due to the fluidity of the way AS has been defined and diagnosed throughout the years, and inconsistency in diagnostic methods between clinicians.
At this time I do not think reliable verbal and performance IQ profiles can be drawn from the current pool of those diagnosed with AS as I do not think the current pool of test subjects have been diagnosed by any consistent means or standards.
Personally I prefer to adhere to the observations of Hans Asperger on the matter, which was similar to that of NVLD. I look forward to advances in brain imaging to clear the current mess up.