Thanks for the link Floridama - my son took the RIAS and scored a 145- but we weren't given a broken down Tscore other than a break down of the 4 scores together in both Verbal and Nonverbal (Guess what/Verbal Reasoning and Odd-Item Out/What's Missing) - we chose the RIAS because of my son's Dyspraxia (issues with fine motor skills such as block building).
We had taken the SBV a year prior but the scores were all over the place...scoring in the 99.9% on some parts and then low, low, low on others and the psych said it didn't even come close to showing a true pic of our son...so she suggested the RIAS.
LOVE THE quote from the link you sent...
"one of the author's goals of the RIAS was to reduce or eliminate dependence on motor coordination
and visual motor speed in the measurement of intelligence"...THANKS GOD!!!
The only downside is that the RIAS is not the "known" used test for a lot of places (such as DYS) and I have banged my head on the wall finding any info about it. We wish that more people accepted this test.
MENSA took his RIAS scores but DYS does not :-( So we are not able to apply because I aleady know that DS7 will not do very well on the SBV and worse on the Weschler because of all the motor skills...we really, really want to apply but we don't really have the money to throw away on another assessment, expecially when we know there is a huge chance that it won't give us a very good picture....blah!
I am interested to see if anyone else responds?
Jenn C
