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Context for Nonverbal Assessment of Intelligence and Related Abilities

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Handbook of Nonverbal Assessment

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Typically, verbal responses are assumed to provide a window on the intellect, personality, and related functioning of individuals. However, in some cases, verbal interactions are considered inappropriate as an index of cognitive and interpersonal sophistication. For example, some individuals cannot be assessed via verbal interactions (e.g., those with speech and language impairments and/or hearing deficits, culturally different backgrounds, neurological trauma, emotional problems such as selective mutism). For those individuals, language is a confound and nonverbal tests provide a more rigorous and less biased assessment.

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McCallum, R.S. (2003). Context for Nonverbal Assessment of Intelligence and Related Abilities. In: McCallum, R.S. (eds) Handbook of Nonverbal Assessment. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0153-4_1

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