Originally Posted by peanutsmom
Btw, Silverman tested a few PG kids and she found that Stanford Binet vs Weschler had consistently around 80-100 {note: the actual discrepancy is much smaller--more like 20-40, though there was one child with a 100 pt discrepancy} points discrepancy; Stanford Binet gives higher results than Weschler. I don't know if that's due to higher ceiling or the test being older or just different.
FYI, those findings were pre-extended norms, and referred solely to the tests before the WISC-IV. Silverman herself was involved in developing the extended norms for the WISC-IV, as she currently is in those for the new WISC-V. In the case of very high VS kids with unremarkable verbal gifts, the score discrepancy could easily be in the reverse direction, since the old Stanford-Binet L-M, to which Silverman was referring, was heavily verbal.

...pronounced like the long vowel and first letter of the alphabet...