� INNOVATIONS AND INSIGHTS

Introduction

Joy Pollock’s contribution in this edition of Innovations and Insights re-minds us how careful we need to be in labelling children as havingparticular IQs. I remember reading reports by Educational Psychologists

(who should know better), that a given IQ at 7 years old means that the childcould ‘go to university’ or should not ‘aspire to higher education’! The dreaded11+ operates where I live, but that is another story!

As far as dyslexia is concerned, we know that some of the WISC sub-tests, e.g.Arithmetic, Coding, Information and Digit Span, can be poor in dyslexics,although not necessarily in every dyslexic. A number of writers have discussedthis issue; see Vol. 2.3 of Dyslexia for a special issue on these and other topicsappertaining to intelligence and dyslexia.

Here, Joy presents some data and her comments on differences betweenRaven’s and WISC scores. Anyone else with similar experiences or data?

Michael ThomsonEast Court School

Ramsgate, Kent

DYSLEXIA 7: 171–173 (2001)Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.DOI: 10.1002/dys.191