David Wechsler

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<div>The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale&reg;, Fifth Edition: Australian and New Zealand Language Standardised Edition (WAIS&reg;-5 A&amp;NZ) is the most advanced psychometric measure of adult cognitive ability, based on recent research in the area of cognitive neuroscience and the theories and work of David Wechsler, PhD.&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://www.pearsonclinical.com.au/forms/stay-in-the-know.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Launching mid-late 2025, be the first to know when it drops!</a></strong></div>
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Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale | Fifth Edition: Australian and New Zealand Standardised Edition

The most comprehensive and advanced psychometric measure of cognitive ability in adults. 

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The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Fifth Edition: Australian and New Zealand Language Standardised Edition (WAIS-5 A&NZ) is the most comprehensive and advanced measure of cognitive ability in adults. It is an individually administered clinical instrument for assessing the intelligence of examinees ages 16–90. 

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			<h3>Be the first to know when WAIS-5 A&amp;NZ launches</h3>

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Overview

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			<h3>What&#39;s new?</h3>

			<p>The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale&reg;, Fifth Edition: Australian and New Zealand Language&nbsp;Standardised&nbsp;Edition (WAIS&reg;-5 A&amp;NZ) is&nbsp;the most comprehensive and reliable assessment of cognitive ability. It&nbsp;features reduced administration time, updated norms, improved clinical utility, and improved user experience.<br />
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			The WAIS-5&nbsp;A&amp;NZ is widely used in clinical, educational, correctional, and pharmaceutical research and in government settings.</p>

			<p>Co-normed with WMS&reg;-5, the WAIS-5&nbsp;A&amp;NZ aims to increase the precision of IQ and memory comparisons.</p>

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				<li>Relevant to today&rsquo;s population with new norms</li>
				<li>Reduced administration time for FSIQ and primary subtests</li>
				<li>Simplified administration and scoring directions</li>
				<li>Flexible with improved clinical utility and numerous ancillary index scores</li>
				<li>New expanded index scores for increased interpretive clarity</li>
				<li>New index scores for examinees with expressive language or motor difficulties</li>
				<li>Expanded construct coverage for working memory, fluid reasoning, and processing speed</li>
				<li>New later start points for those suspected of giftedness</li>
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			<h3>Features</h3>

			<ul>
				<li>New later start points for those suspected of&nbsp;intellectual giftedness
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					<li>Decreased testing time</li>
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				<li>New index scores for examinees with expressive or motor problems
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					<li>Improved interpretive clarity</li>
					<li>Measure of ability not confounded by expressive language or motor problems</li>
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				<li>Separate visual spatial and fluid reasoning indexes
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					<li>Purer measure of both constructs</li>
					<li>Improved interpretive clarity</li>
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				<li>Comprehensive measurement of working memory
				<ul>
					<li>Auditory, visual, spatial, capacity, and focus of attention</li>
					<li>Task that mimics real-world rate of speech</li>
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				<li>New quantitative reasoning index
				<ul>
					<li>Strong indicator of general intelligence and predictor of academic and career success</li>
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				<li>New crystallised and fluid expanded index scores
				<ul>
					<li>Broader measures of the two cornerstones of intelligence</li>
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				</li>
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			<h3>The new WAIS-5&nbsp;A&amp;NZ&nbsp;subtests</h3>

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				<li><strong>Set Relations:&nbsp;</strong>New Fluid Reasoning subtest that measures deductive reasoning and logical thinking.</li>
				<li><strong>Running Digits:&nbsp;</strong>New Working Memory subtest that measures auditory working memory that requires both flexibility in information processing and a progressive shift of attention.</li>
				<li><strong>Naming Speed Quantity:&nbsp;</strong>New Processing Speed subtest that measures numerical processing fluency and the ability to recognise&nbsp; and label quantities efficiently.</li>
				<li><strong>Spatial Addition:&nbsp;</strong>A measure of Visual Working Memory that measures visual-spatial working memory and requires storage, manipulation, and ability to ignore competing stimuli (also included on WMS&reg;&ndash;IV and WMS-5).</li>
				<li><strong>Symbol Span:&nbsp;</strong>A measure of Visual Working Memory that measures the capacity to hold a mental image of a design in mind and the relative spatial position on the page (also included on WMS&ndash;IV and WMS-5)</li>
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			<h3>WAIS-IV&nbsp;A&amp;NZ vs WAIS-5&nbsp;A&amp;NZ Comparison</h3>

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						<td style="background-color:#d5f4f6; border-color:black; border-style:solid; border-width:1px; width:50%">WAIS&reg;&ndash;IV&nbsp;A&amp;NZ (2008)</td>
						<td style="background-color:#d5f4f6; border-color:black; border-style:solid; border-width:1px; width:50%">WAIS-5&nbsp;A&amp;NZ (2024)</td>
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						<td style="border-color:black; border-style:solid; border-width:1px; width:50%"><strong>Administration Time:</strong>
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							<li>70 minutes for core subtests</li>
							<li>~90 minutes for all subtests</li>
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						<td style="border-color:black; border-style:solid; border-width:1px; width:50%"><strong>Administration Time:</strong>
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							<li>45 minutes for the 7-subtest FSIQ</li>
							<li>~60 minutes for the 10 primary index subtests</li>
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						<td style="border-color:black; border-style:solid; border-width:1px; width:50%"><strong>Norms and Validity Studies:</strong>
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							<li>2007&ndash;2008</li>
							<li>Co-normed with WMS&ndash;IV</li>
							<li>Studies with other measures: WAIS&reg;&ndash;III, WISC&reg;&ndash;IV, CMS&trade;,&nbsp;&nbsp;WIAT&reg;&ndash;II, WMS&reg;&ndash;III,&nbsp;&nbsp;Brown ADD Scales&reg;, D-KEFS&trade;, CVLT&reg;-II, RBANS&reg;</li>
							<li>Special group studies:
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								<li>Intellectually gifted (GT)</li>
								<li>Intellectual disability-mild severity (IDMI)</li>
								<li>Intellectual disability-moderate severity (IDMO)</li>
								<li>Borderline intellectual functioning (BIF)</li>
								<li>Reading disorder (RD)</li>
								<li>Mathematics disorder (MD)</li>
								<li>Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)</li>
								<li>Autistic disorder (AUT)</li>
								<li>Asperger&rsquo;s disorder (ASP)</li>
								<li>Major depressive disorder (DEP)</li>
								<li>Traumatic brain injury (TBI)</li>
								<li>Mild cognitive impairment (MCI)</li>
								<li>Probable dementia of the Alzheimer&rsquo;s type (ALZ)</li>
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						<td style="border-color:black; border-style:solid; border-width:1px; width:50%"><strong>Norms and Validity Studies:</strong>
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							<li>2023-2024</li>
							<li>Co-normed with WMS&reg;-5</li>
							<li>Studies with other measures: WAIS&reg;&ndash;IV, WISC&reg;&ndash;V, DAS&ndash;II&trade;,&nbsp;&nbsp;NU SA, KBIT&trade;&ndash;2 Revised,&nbsp;&nbsp;WIAT&reg; 4, WRAML&trade;3,&nbsp;&nbsp;PPVT&trade;&ndash;5/EVT&trade;&ndash;3</li>
							<li>Special group studies:
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								<li>Intellectually gifted (GT)</li>
								<li>Intellectual disability-mild severity (IDMI)</li>
								<li>Intellectual disability-moderate severity (IDMO)</li>
								<li>Specific learning disorder-reading (SLD-R)</li>
								<li>Specific learning disorder-mathematics (SLD-M)</li>
								<li>Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)</li>
								<li>Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)</li>
								<li>Traumatic brain injury (TBI)</li>
								<li>Mild cognitive impairment (MCI)</li>
								<li>Probable dementia of the Alzheimer&rsquo;s type (ALZ)</li>
								<li>Personal protective equipment (PPE)</li>
								<li>Native American (NA)</li>
								<li>English language learners (ELL)</li>
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						<td style="border-color:black; border-style:solid; border-width:1px; width:50%"><strong>Subtests:</strong><br />
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						Core Subtests:
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							<li>Similarities</li>
							<li>Vocabulary</li>
							<li>Information</li>
							<li>Block Design</li>
							<li>Matrix Reasoning</li>
							<li>Visual Puzzles</li>
							<li>Digit Span</li>
							<li>Arithmetic</li>
							<li>Symbol Search</li>
							<li>Coding</li>
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						Supplemental Subtests:

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							<li>Comprehension</li>
							<li>Figure Weights</li>
							<li>Picture Completion</li>
							<li>Letter-Number Sequencing</li>
							<li>&nbsp;Cancellation</li>
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						<td style="border-color:black; border-style:solid; border-width:1px; width:50%"><strong>Subtests:</strong><br />
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						Primary Subtests:
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							<li>Similarities</li>
							<li>Vocabulary</li>
							<li>Block Design</li>
							<li>Visual Puzzles</li>
							<li>Matrix Reasoning</li>
							<li>Figure Weights</li>
							<li>Digit Sequencing</li>
							<li><strong>NEW</strong> Running Digits</li>
							<li>Coding</li>
							<li>Symbol Search</li>
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						Secondary Subtests:

						<ul>
							<li>Information</li>
							<li>Comprehension</li>
							<li>Arithmetic</li>
							<li><strong>NEW</strong>&nbsp;Set Relations</li>
							<li>Digits Forward</li>
							<li>Digits Backward</li>
							<li>Letter-Number Sequencing</li>
							<li><strong>NEW</strong>&nbsp;Naming Speed Quantity</li>
							<li><strong>NEW</strong>&nbsp;Symbol Span</li>
							<li><strong>NEW</strong>&nbsp;Spatial Addition</li>
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						<td style="border-color:black; border-style:solid; border-width:1px; width:50%"><strong>FSIQ:</strong>
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							<li>7 Subtests</li>
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						<td style="border-color:black; border-style:solid; border-width:1px; width:50%"><strong>FSIQ:</strong>
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							<li>7 Subtests</li>
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						<td style="border-color:black; border-style:solid; border-width:1px; width:50%"><strong>Index scores:</strong>
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							<li>4 Index scores</li>
							<li>1 optional index score</li>
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						<td style="border-color:black; border-style:solid; border-width:1px; width:50%"><strong>Index scores:</strong>
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							<li>4 Index scores</li>
							<li>1 optional index score</li>
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							<li>Basic retrofit offering</li>
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						<td style="border-color:black; border-style:solid; border-width:1px; width:50%"><strong>Remote Administration:</strong>
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							<li>Digital assets for remote administration</li>
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						<td style="border-color:black; border-style:solid; border-width:1px; width:50%"><strong>Accessibility:</strong>
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							<li>General Ability Index for those with working memory or processing speed difficulties</li>
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						<td style="border-color:black; border-style:solid; border-width:1px; width:50%"><strong>Accessibility:</strong>
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							<li>General Ability Index for those with working memory or processing speed difficulties</li>
							<li><strong>NEW</strong>&nbsp;Nonverbal Index for expressive issues</li>
							<li><strong>NEW</strong>&nbsp;Nonmotor Index</li>
							<li><strong>NEW</strong>&nbsp;Motor-Reduced Processing</li>
							<li>Speed Index for motor issues</li>
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			<p>The following resources are available for WAIS-5 A&amp;NZ</p>

			<h3>Blog</h3>

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				<li><a class="text-primary-link" href="https://www.pearsonclinical.com.au/the-psychology-digest/2024/09/whats-new-with-the-wais-5.html">What&rsquo;s new with the WAIS-5 A&amp;NZ?</a>

				<h3>Sample Reports</h3>
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