The block design test

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I have been diagnose with Asperger.
In the report, I took one-block design test
I scored very low on this test.

What does it mean?

Have heard that people with Asperger scores very high on this test.

I have been diagnosed with this diagnosis.
Can the diagnosis be wrong?

Please help me.





I'm from Norway, sorry for the typos

I think being good at block design is only one area where most but not all Aspies are good at. You don't have to be good at it, as there are many other important areas / traits in which you can score high. Probably you don't have good visual skills at geometry (or spatial skills). Autistic brains may differ in their basic ways of thinking. Temple Grandin uses this grouping (it's only one of many possible):

Takk for ditt svar.

Jeg har store matematikkvansker.

Jeg tror jeg har NLD i tilegg til asperger. Det kan vel være ganske vanlig.

Jeg hadde gode resultater på andre deltester.
Spesielt i å finne mønster i figurer.

sorry for typing error....


Thanks for your reply.

I have great mathematical difficulties.

I think I have NLD in addition to Asperger. It may well be quite common.

I had good results in other subtests.
Especially in finding patterns in the figures.

T

OJani

Thanks for your reply.

Funny. I'm just reading Temple G. book. And I recognized myself.
I have always had a suspicion that I am autistic - not Asperger


Excuse typos

I'm not good at writing - so it is short feedback .... as you see

But I am very grateful for yor help

By definition, as an NLDer, (auditorily based autistic), you don't visualize well.

However, it is entirely possible to be a "hypervisualizer", and still not have a particularly good spatial sense. A combination more often found amongst the girls/women, both neurotypical and autistic.

A good score on the block design test requires one to remember non-representational design. So, you can refer to memory,, and not keep looking back and forth. This aptitude is more often found amongst males. And as most people with autism are male....hence the stereotype.

I'm female, and score in the 99% for picture recall (Woodcock Johnson Abilities test), but those are pictures of identifiable objects, and can therefore, be catagorized, and then remembered as to specifics. My score on block design was entirely average, and my lowest with the exception of auditory memory, (called the "working memory index") on the WAIS 111, and IV. So, I qualify as having an eidetic memory, (visual working memory) and yet, the Weschler test only factors auditory working memory into the formula for full scale IQ. You may be at an advantage here. Not that IQ as it is currently determined, means much in the grand scheme of things. But the Weschler is heavily weighted to favor auditory memory.

I have always scored average on it. I think the highest I have ever gotten is 14. But I love these tests. I have always been good at them but I always got average and I am very visual.

Last time I had a test like that given by a professional back in 2003, I blew that test out of the water.
The test giver told me I did the best on the block design that she had ever seen.

What is the block design test? I'm interested because part of the ADOS diagnostic assessment for autism/AS was putting some blocks on an outline, like a puzzle. I was wondering if this was the same test or just another test that involves blocks!

This is the block test:

http://www.artandleisure.com/leisure/iq/one.html#