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04 Jul 2011, 9:16 pm

I had a neuropsych eval done. I received the report but was disappointed to find that there were only explanations of how I performed on each tasks, but not actual scores. In other words, my IQ is nowhere to be found on the report.

When you received your report, did it contain your IQ score?



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04 Jul 2011, 9:28 pm

I had some IQ tests done when I was younger. All I remember my mum saying to me was "I'm so proud of you, you're above average IQ" I guess that's a good sign :)



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05 Jul 2011, 1:27 am

Provv wrote:
I had a neuropsych eval done. I received the report but was disappointed to find that there were only explanations of how I performed on each tasks, but not actual scores. In other words, my IQ is nowhere to be found on the report.

When you received your report, did it contain your IQ score?




Hmmm.....so let me get this straight...an IQ (likely the WAIS-IV) test WAS included in this eval right? Do you recall taking one? Did they ask you to assemble red and white plastic blocks just to mention the task on one of most enduring subtests on the most widely-used IQ test? (WAIS). If they did....you took at least SOME key portions of an IQ test since I doubt they would give you the Block Design subtest in isolation from other subtests like Vocabularly, Information, Visual Puzzles, Matrix Reasoning, etc.....



AFAIK.....IQ tests like WAIS are included on most, if not all, professionally-administered neuropsych evals. I've had six neuropsych evals in my life and an IQ test was included on every one of them. Now maybe the "tasks" you're referring to were nothing more than the various subtests on the IQ test. Like alot of people with ASD, maybe your performance on the subtests was uneven enough to convince the examiner/s not to bother calculating a raw IQ score. That would be legitimate if they simply didn't mention a FULL SCALE IQ score. What might be unusual is if they didn't mention a VERBAL COMP index score and a PERCEPTUAL-ORGANIZATIONAL one. These can be comparatively more relevant than Full-Scale IQ where people with ASD are concerned. Individuals with ASD often have significant discrepancies between their "Verbal IQ" and "Performance IQ" in *favor* of one or the other.

Without further info....I can't be certain of what happened here with your neuropsych eval. Can you contact the person/s who administered the eval and ask them the same questions you've asked here???


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05 Jul 2011, 3:48 am

No.


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05 Jul 2011, 7:26 pm

Horus wrote:
Provv wrote:
I had a neuropsych eval done. I received the report but was disappointed to find that there were only explanations of how I performed on each tasks, but not actual scores. In other words, my IQ is nowhere to be found on the report.

When you received your report, did it contain your IQ score?




Hmmm.....so let me get this straight...an IQ (likely the WAIS-IV) test WAS included in this eval right? Do you recall taking one? Did they ask you to assemble red and white plastic blocks just to mention the task on one of most enduring subtests on the most widely-used IQ test? (WAIS). If they did....you took at least SOME key portions of an IQ test since I doubt they would give you the Block Design subtest in isolation from other subtests like Vocabularly, Information, Visual Puzzles, Matrix Reasoning, etc.....



AFAIK.....IQ tests like WAIS are included on most, if not all, professionally-administered neuropsych evals. I've had six neuropsych evals in my life and an IQ test was included on every one of them. Now maybe the "tasks" you're referring to were nothing more than the various subtests on the IQ test. Like alot of people with ASD, maybe your performance on the subtests was uneven enough to convince the examiner/s not to bother calculating a raw IQ score. That would be legitimate if they simply didn't mention a FULL SCALE IQ score. What might be unusual is if they didn't mention a VERBAL COMP index score and a PERCEPTUAL-ORGANIZATIONAL one. These can be comparatively more relevant than Full-Scale IQ where people with ASD are concerned. Individuals with ASD often have significant discrepancies between their "Verbal IQ" and "Performance IQ" in *favor* of one or the other.

Without further info....I can't be certain of what happened here with your neuropsych eval. Can you contact the person/s who administered the eval and ask them the same questions you've asked here???


Well they said I was not qualified to interpret the scores. However, a verbal and a nonverbal IQ would have been useful. But no numbers in the report.