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I agree with aculady - we had taken the SBV and my DS8 actually ceilinged it in several subtests but he has dyspraxia - his motor coordination problems caused issues with the sections that had him use fine motor skills so his low scores in that area pulled down his high scores in others. We wanted to try to get an accurate look taking out his issues with Dyspraxia. So we were tol about the RIAS. My son took it 2 years ago and it finally gave us a better picture - our psychologist said that actually a good portion of his RIAS scores were comparable to his SBV scores so that made me feel better. I had never heard of the RIAS and I was worried that it wouldn't be accurate but when i heard that he scored similiarly on the SBV I felt better. Without any subtests using fine motor skills, we got a really good picture of where my son was using the RIAS.