Intelligence and Academic Abilities

Question 1

Differences between intelligence and achievement

Answer 1

intelligence:
predicting future performance
ability to acquire new skill and knowledge

Achievement:
ability to write, read, listen
measured by school assessment

Question 2

benefits of Weschler Intelligent Test for Children

Answer 2

more engaging, on ipad, measures the full-scale of general intelligence

Question 3

Elements of the WIAT

Answer 3

sentence composition
easy reading skills
phonological awareness
math problem solving

Question 4

Explain specific learning disorder

Answer 4

affects the child’s ability to receive, store, process, retrieve, communicate information
one of the areas = SLD (if more than one, maybe low GI)
usually happens to children with average/high average IQ

Question 5

Criteria of SLD

Answer 5

persist through time and no significant improvements even though with interventions
more severe through time
assessed by relevant assessments (WIAT) and significantly lower than peers.
not explained by other reasons (e.g., need glasses)

Question 6

Explain Dyslexia

Answer 6

People with
-> difficulties with lower reading capabilities
-> difficulties with decoding words (pronunciation)
-> difficulties with encoding words (spelling)

Question 7

Describe the process of weaknesses and strengths

Answer 7

1. Do a WISC to locate cognitive strengths
2. Do a WISC to locate cognitive weakness
3. Do a WIAT to locate academic weakness
   Results of 1 should be consistent with 2,3
   Results of 2 should be consistent with 3

Question 8

Reading and the brain

Answer 8

Broca’s region = for the articulation (fluency) when reading
Parietal temporal area = word analysis
Occipital temporal area = rapidly visualise words in the brain

Question 9

What is the name of the intervention of breaking syllables of words, which is used before the diagnose of Dyslexia, and how to identify people with Dyslexia

Answer 9

Systematic Phonics Instruction. They usually have a slower improvement progress even after exposed to the intervention for a period of time

Question 10

How do brain activities of normal people differ from people with Dyslexia

Answer 10

normal people mainly use the left hemisphere and localised when it comes to word processing
However, for people with Dyslexia, the right hemisphere is activated -> seems like its for compensating the de-localised activities in the left hemisphere
Therefore slower