If considering MR/ID, then use table below and subsequent narrative:
Intellectual functioning was assessed using formal instruments. An intelligence test was administered in
order to assess the student’s general range of intellectual functioning and to determine current strengths
and weaknesses across cognitive processing areas.
The Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Cognitive Abilities (WJ IV-Cog) is a wide age-range comprehensive
system for measuring general intellectual ability, g, and specific cognitive skills in various processing
areas.
Standard Percentile
Score
Rank
General Intellectual Ability (GIA)
Oral Vocabulary
Number Series
Verbal Attention
Letter-Pattern Matching
Phonological Processing
Story Recall
Visualization
The General Intellectual Ability score indicates global intellectual functioning to be within the very low
range of intelligence. Results of a standard score of 70 or below (considering the standard error of
measurement) indicate sub-average cognitive ability.
An analysis of Xxx’s performance across the various tests indicates (summarize what student could and
couldn’t do)
If not for MR/ID and only using WJ-IV Cognitive
Intellectual functioning was assessed using formal instruments. An intelligence test was administered in
order to assess the student’s general range of intellectual functioning and to determine current strengths
and weaknesses across cognitive processing areas.
The Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Cognitive Abilities (WJ IV-Cog) is a wide age-range comprehensive
system for measuring general intellectual ability, g, and specific cognitive skills in various processing
areas. The results are presented below.
Standard
Percentile
Score
Rank
General Intellectual Ability (GIA)
COMPREHENSION-KNOWLEDGE (Gc)
Oral Vocabulary
General Information
Picture Vocabulary
LONG-TERM RETRIEVAL (Glr)
Story Recall
Visual-Auditory Learning
Standard
Score
Percentile
Rank
VISUAL PROCESSING
Visualization
Picture Recognition
AUDITORY PROCESSING
Phonological Processing
Nonword Repetition
Phonetic Coding
Segmentation
Sound Blending
FLUID REASONING
Number Series
Concept Formation
Analysis-Synthesis
COGNITIVE PROCESSING SPEED
Letter-Pattern Matching
Pair Cancellation
SHORT-TERM WORKING MEMORY
Verbal Attention
Numbers Reversed
Object-Number Sequencing
The General Intelligence Ability score indicates global intellectual functioning.
Xxx’s GIA (is within normal limits/indicates a normative deficit/indicates a normative strength).
OR
The General Intelligence Ability score is attenuated (weakened) due to the degree of scatter across Xxx’s
profile of scores and should not be viewed as the most representative score of his/her overall ability.
Comprehension-Knowledge
Comprehension Knowledge, or crystallized intelligence, is the breadth and depth of a person’s acquired
knowledge, the ability to communicate one’s knowledge (especially verbally), and the ability to reason
using previously learned experiences or procedures. This cluster is composed of Oral Vocabulary
(providing a synonym or antonym for a given word) and General information (answering questions such
as “Where would you find … [an object]?” and “What would you do with … [an object]?”). The
extended cluster also includes Picture Vocabulary (identifying pictured objects). Xxx’s performance
indicates … (personalize this section based on your analysis of the student’s responses)
Long-Term Retrieval
Long-term retrieval is the ability to store information (after it has been displaced from immediate
awareness) and fluently retrieve it later in the process of thinking. This cluster is a combination of Story
Recall (recalling increasingly complex stories that are presented from an audio recording), and Visual–
Auditory Learning (learning and recalling pictographic representations of words). Xxx’s performance
indicates … (personalize this section based on your analysis of the student’s responses)
Visual Processing
Visual processing is the ability to encode, synthesize, and discriminate auditory stimuli, including the
ability to employ auditory information in task performance. This cluster includes Visualization which is
comprised of two parts; Spatial Relations (identifying the two or three pieces that form a complete target
shape) and Block Rotation (identifying the two block patterns that match the target pattern). The cluster
also includes Picture Recognition (recognizing a subset of previously presented pictures within a field of
distracting pictures). Xxx’s performance indicates … (personalize this section based on your analysis of
the student’s responses)
Auditory Processing
Auditory processing is the ability to perceive, analyze, and synthesize patterns among auditory stimuli.
This cluster includes Phonological Processing which is comprised of three parts; Word Access (providing
a word that has a specific phonemic element in a specific location), Word Fluency (naming as many
words as possible that begin with a specified sound in 1 minute) and Substitution (substituting part of a
word to create a new word). The cluster also includes Nonword Repetition (listening to a nonsense word
and then repeating the word exactly). Further measures of Auditory Processing from the WJ-IV Test of
Oral Language comprise the Phonetic Coding Cluster. These tests include Segmentation (listening to
words and identifying the word parts ranging from compound words to syllables to individual speech
sounds) and Sound Blending (listening to a series of syllables or phonemes and then blending the sounds
into a word). Xxx’s performance indicates … (personalize this section based on your analysis of the
student’s responses)
Fluid Reasoning
Fluid reasoning includes the broad ability to reason, form concepts, and solve problems using unfamiliar
information or novel procedures. This cluster includes Number Series (determining the missing number
in a series of numbers) and Concept Formation (deriving the rule for an item when presented with a
complete stimulus set). The Fluid Reasoning –Extended cluster includes Analysis-Synthesis (performing
an increasingly complex procedure given instructions). Xxx’s performance indicates … (personalize this
section based on your analysis of the student’s responses)
Cognitive Processing Speed
Processing speed is the ability to quickly perform both simple and complex cognitive tasks, particularly
when measured under pressure to sustain controlled attention and concentration. This cluster includes
Letter-Pattern Matching (locating and circling two identical letter patterns in a row of 6 patterns) and
Pair Cancellation (locating and marking a repeated pattern as quickly as possible). Xxx’s performance
indicates … (personalize this section based on your analysis of the student’s responses)
Short-Term Working Memory
Short-term memory is the ability to apprehend and hold information in immediate awareness and then use
it or manipulate it to carry out a goal. This cluster includes Verbal Attention (answering specific sequence
questions when provided with a series of animals and digits from an audio recording) and Numbers
Reversed (holding a span of numbers in immediate awareness while performing a mental operation on it).
The Short-Term Working Memory-Extended cluster also includes Object-Number Sequence (listening to
a series of digits and words and reordering them in a specific way to repeat them). Xxx’s performance
indicates … (personalize this section based on your analysis of the student’s responses)