The education of children with disabilities in the regular educational environment has long been an expectation of legislation in many countries. Yet some children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are educated outside regular classes. Despite the obvious importance that educational placement holds for any child, there is limited research on how…

Investigated geographic differences in Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) results by comparing 60 Hawaiian and 60 mainland United States psychiatric outpatients. The influence of pidgin English led to expectations that Hawaiian subjects would have significantly lower WAIS Verbal scores than mainland subjects. Data verified these…

Compared scores of Argentines and North Americans on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (revised version). Americans were found to perform significantly better in Vocabulary, Arithmetic, Similarities, and Digit Symbol subtests (perhaps related to their higher average school level), but no cultural differences in factor structures were found.…

Examined cross-cultural generalizability of the Stanford-Binet and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale. Australian and Taiwanese students were asked to rate 27 items for relevance and difficulty; similar notions about what constitutes intelligence were found across cultures. (Author/GC)

Intersubtest scatter on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised for China (WAIS-RC) for 1,979 subjects was evaluated and compared with that of the WAIS-R standardization sample. Findings were similar, and differences in scatter range may be explained by cultural differences in values, educational approaches, and educational opportunities.…