Researchers are developing a procedure for more accurate capacity of children. Parents of children with mental disabilities, were disappointed with IQ tests, they said virtually nothing about their children in the long-term training opportunities. This is because the tests are conducted in accordance with the average performance of children without disabilities, so that the raw scores of many children with intellectual disabilities at a low level of output: as a rule, no."We send back these reports that don't tell parents anything about their child," explained David Hessl, associate professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of California Davis M.I.N.D. Institute.
Well, Hessle, and a team from the new system, points IQ tests, the number of children with fragile X syndrome, genetic disorder that causes mental retardation, including autism. His studies were in-line Springer in the journal Neuro-development disorders.
"If this new method becomes widely available, we will be able to tell parents something more useful and more accurately diagnose and treat young children who are learning disabled," said Hessl, a physician who cares for children with fragile X syndrome.
According to Hessler, "There are many differences in the performance of children with mental disabilities in IQ tests. IQ tests are frustrated by "lack of sensitivity, Hessle develop scoring method to assess the advantages and disadvantages of each child.
"I knew a more accurate estimation of the potential of these children would make a big difference in their lives," he said.
In collaboration with researchers from the MIND Institute and Stanford University, as well as statistics from the National University of Pennsylvania, the group came with the new standardized scores of 217 children with fragile X syndrome, IQ test.
"The new scores tell us more precisely how a child with fragile X syndrome deviates from the normal population in every sub-test area," Hessl said.
Treatment of fragile X syndrome depends on its manifestation in each of the behavioral therapy to medication. The widespread use of new skills at a higher level will be the doctors treat their patients.
Hessl concluded, "In the future, the publishers of IQ tests should include lower functioning individuals in their standardization studies. This might mean over-sampling those with intellectual disability in order to get more sensitivity, but it would help so many children."
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