Comparison of wisc-r factor patterns for younger and older epileptic children

Abstract

The pattern and level of WISC-R performances were examined for 113 younger (ages 6–12) and 124 older (ages 12–16) epileptic children. Although these youngsters performed more poorly than the norm group on all 10 subtests, as do adult epileptics on the WAIS (Fowler, Richards, & Boll, 1980), only the younger subjects showed a definite tendency to be more variable in their performance. Factor analyses demonstrated the presence of highly similar Verbal Comprehension and Perceptual Organization dimensions for both groups but, in the case of the 3-factor solutions, an additional freedom-from-distractibility dimension was found for only the older subjects. These results suggest that Kaufman's (1975, 1979) 3-factor model of the Wechsler scales is more strongly approximated as the age of the epileptic respondents increases.

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