Essentials of WISC-V Assessment

Dawn P. Flanagan, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at St. John’s University and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology at Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine. She serves as an expert witness, learning disabilities consultant, and psychoeducational test/measurement consultant and trainer for national and international organizations. Dr. Flanagan is an author of numerous publications and best known for her development of the Cross-Battery Assessment approach and the development of an operational definition of specific learning disability.Vincent C. Alfonso, PhD, is the Dean of School of Education at Gonzaga University. He is the past president of Division 16 (School Psychology) of the American Psychological Association, fellow of Divisions 16 and 5 of the APA, and a certified school psychologist and licensed psychologist. He has been providing psychoeducational services to individuals across the lifespan for more than 20 years. He is the co-editor with Dawn Flanagan of Essentials of Specific Learning Disability Identification, and co-author of Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment, Third Edition.

• Acknowledgments xiSeries Preface xiiiForeword xvSusie Engi RaifordOne Overview of the WISC-V 1W. Joel Schneider, Dawn P. Flanagan, and Vincent C. AlfonsoTwo How to Administer the WISC-V 53Three How to Score the WISC-V 133Four How to Interpret the WISC-V 167Five Strengths and Weaknesses of the WISC-V 279Six A Neuropsychological Approach to Interpretation of the WISC-V 287George McCloskey, Jamie Slonim, Robert Whitaker, Samantha Kaufman, and Naoko NagoshiSeven Use of the WISC-V in the Identification of Specific Learning Disabilities 405Eight Illustrative Case Report 511Erin M. McDonoughNine Assessment of English Learners With the WISC-V 539Samuel O. Ortiz, Kristan E. Melo, and Meghan A. TerzulliTen WISC-V and Q-interactive 591Carlea Dries, Ron Dumont, and Kathleen D. ViezelEpilogue Dorothea McCarthy Remembered 617Alan S. KaufmanAppendices A–F can be accessed and downloaded from https://www.wiley.com/Essentials+of+WISC-V+Assessment-p- 9781118980996Appendix A A Brief Overview of the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) TheoryAppendix B Norms Tables for New WISC-V Clinical CompositesAppendix C Case ReportsGail Cheramie, Jamie Chaffin, and Robert LichtensteinAppendix D Form for Manifestations of Cognitive WeaknessesAppendix E Definition of Terms and Clarification of Concepts Used in the Dual Discrepancy/ Consistency Model of SLD and the Cross-Battery Assessment Software System (X-BASS)Appendix F Task Characteristics of WISC-V SubtestsMarlene Sotelo-DynegaAbout the Authors 621Contributors 622Index 623