@article{ref1,
title="Criterion validity of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fourth Edition after pediatric traumatic brain injury",
journal="Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society",
year="2008",
author="Donders, Jacobus and Janke, Kelly",
volume="14",
number="4",
pages="651-655",
abstract="The performance of 40 children with complicated mild to severe traumatic brain injury on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fourth Edition (WISC-IV; Wechsler, 2003) was compared with that of 40 demographically matched healthy controls. Of the four WISC-IV factor index scores, only Processing Speed yielded a statistically significant group difference (p &lt; .001) as well as a statistically significant negative correlation with length of coma (p &lt; .01). Logistic regression, using Processing Speed to classify individual children, yielded a sensitivity of 72.50% and a specificity of 62.50%, with false positive and false negative rates both exceeding 30%. We conclude that Processing Speed has acceptable criterion validity in the evaluation of children with complicated mild to severe traumatic brain injury but that the WISC-IV should be supplemented with other measures to assure sufficient accuracy in the diagnostic process.   <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1355-6177",
doi="10.1017/S1355617708080752",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1355617708080752"
}