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Compared with the previous assessment, WISC-III displayed a slight decrease of intelligence quotient [ Table 1 ], already reported when using this scale in place of WISC-R.[ 10 ] WISC-III profile showed a significant impairment ( P < 0.01) in the verbal subtest “arithmetic” (involving attention and numerical reasoning) and in the supplementary performance subtest “mazes” (visual analysis, visual-motor coordination, attention, planning); further, there was an almost significant ( P ≈ 0.05) decrease in the supplementary verbal subtest “digit span,” particularly backwards (short-term auditory memory, attention).

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