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The Advanced Clinical Solutions for WAIS–IV and WMS–IV (ACS) assessment battery provides an individually administered array of tasks, procedures, and scores that enhance the clinical utility of the WAIS–IV and WMS–IV by linking the two assessments to executive functioning, social perception, and daily living constructs. The system is designed to address specific needs of clinical assessment, including those of diagnostic and forensic evaluations, re-administrations, and neuropsychological assessments that require estimates of premorbid functioning.

Users & Applications

Neuropsychologists and general clinicians can use the ACS with special populations in a variety of settings, including:

• Settings with older adults to assess dementia, daily living skills, and reliable change
• Forensic settings to measure premorbid IQ and effort
• Settings with individuals with traumatic brain injury to assess executive functioning and social perception
• Clinical settings to help identify major psychiatric disorders
• Settings with individuals with Autism/Asperger's to evaluate social perception

Subtests

• The Test of Premorbid Functioning (TOPF)—A revision of the Wechsler Test of Adult Reading (WTAR), the TOPF is used along with demographic information to estimate an individual's premorbid cognitive and memory functioning. It is based on a reading paradigm, requiring the reading and pronounciation of words with irregular grapheme-to-phoneme translation. It does not require comprehension or knowledge of word meaning.
• Suboptimal Effort Word Choice—This subtest takes approximately 5 minutes to administer and provides information in conjunction with embedded effort measures on chance performance by an examinee. Performance by a specific individual can be compared to determine if he/she is performing on a lower level than that observed.
• Social Cognition—Three subtests (Social Perception, Faces, and Names) are designed to measure relevant components of social cognition, such as affect labelling; affect recognition from faces and prosody; identification of sarcasm; the ability to verbalize intent of a speaker; and face and name memory (e.g., face recognition; recall of names and pertinent information about a person from facial images).
• Executive Functions—Includes the Trail Making and Verbal Fluency subtests (with Record Forms and Response Booklets) from the Delis-Kaplan Executive Functioning System (D–KEFS). The integration of measures of executive functioning in an evaluation with the WAIS–IV and WMS–IV enables clinicians to perform a comprehensive evaluation of neuropsychological status.
• Daily Living—NEW! The ACS is also linked with the new Texas Functioning Living Scale (TFLS). The TFLS provides a brief, ecologically valid, performance-based screening tool to help identify the level of care an individual requires. It can be administered in 15 minutes.

Scores

• Demographically Adjusted Scores—The ACS provides demographically adjusted norms, enabling clinicians to refine their hypotheses about the degree to which a specific score is unexpected when compared to scores of individuals with similar background characteristics (e.g., education level).
• Reliable Change Scores—These scores are adjusted for the changes seen in re-test scores in normally developing individuals. They provide information on changes in performance that are due to real change in the individual. The ACS software provides regression-based reliable change scores for all WAIS–IV core and WMS–IV primary subtest and index scores.
• Standard Scores—Several types of age-corrected standard scores are used in the ACS, including T scores, scaled scores, and index scores.
• Combined Scores—Combined scores are a special type of standard score created by combining two measures. For example, a combined scaled score is derived for the Auditory Recognition Index by combining cumulative percentages for Logical Memory II Recognition and Verbal Paired Associates II Recognition.
• Contrast Scaled Scores—Most WMS–IV primary subtests offer contrast scaled scores, particularly those with immediate and delayed conditions or recall and recognition tasks. Additional subtest and index-level contrast scaled scores are included in the ACS. The contrast scaled scores are designed to allow the examiner to compare higher- to lower-level cognitive functions (e.g., recall versus recognition) or to differentiate statistically between modalities of presentation (e.g., oral versus visual).

Features and Benefits

• Provides a common and related sample linking executive functioning, social perception, and daily living constructs to the WAIS–IV and WMS–IV.
• Offers flexible assessments for special populations.
• Software provided in the ACS kit includes demographically adjusted norms; scoring software for selected subtests; the Clinical and Interpretive Manual with additional scales and scores; audio required for administering the Social Perception subtest ; and scoring of the Test of Premorbid Functioning (TOPF).

NOTE: The WAIS–IV and WMS–IV Scoring Assistant™ software programs are required to attain full functionality of the ACS software.

ACS Scoring Combinations With WAIS–IV and/or WMS–IV Scoring Software

Obtaining the scores and information described above may require users to own additional WAIS–IV and/or WMS–IV scoring software programs. See the table below for full details of software required to obtain respective functionality desired.