Intellectual Profiles of Clinic-Referred Preschoolers

Autor/inn/en	Labelle, Fannie; Béliveau, Marie-Julie; Jauvin, Karine; Akzam-Ouellette, Marc-Antoine
Titel	Intellectual Profiles of Clinic-Referred Preschoolers
Quelle	In: Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 38 (2023) 2, S.127-143 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Labelle, Fannie) ORCID (Béliveau, Marie-Julie)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0829-5735
DOI	10.1177/08295735231154670
Schlagwörter	Preschool Children; Referral; Intelligence Quotient; Intellectual Disability; Psychiatry; Patients; Behavior Problems; Clinics; Verbal Ability; Nonverbal Ability; Records (Forms); Intelligence Tests; Cognitive Development; Young Children; Mental Health; Correlation; Clinical Diagnosis; French; Participant Characteristics; Foreign Countries; Canada; Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Intelligenzquotient; Intellect; Disability; Disabilities; Verstand; Behinderung; Psychiatrie; Patient; Mündliche Leistung; Formularsammlung; Intelligence test; Intelligenztest; Kognitive Entwicklung; Frühe Kindheit; Psychohygiene; Korrelation; Französisch; Ausland; Kanada
Abstract	Intellectual impairments in preschoolers have been widely studied. A regularity that emerges is that children's intellectual impairments have an important impact on later adjustments in life. However, few studies have looked at the intellectual profiles of young psychiatric outpatients. This study aimed to describe the intelligence profile of preschoolers referred to psychiatry for various cognitive and behavioral problems in terms of verbal, nonverbal, and full-scale IQ and to examine their association with diagnoses. Three hundred four clinical records from young children aged under 7 years and 3 months who consulted at an outpatient psychiatric clinic and who had one intellectual assessment with a Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence were reviewed. Verbal IQ (VIQ), Nonverbal IQ (NVIQ), and Full-scale IQ (FSIQ) were extracted. Hierarchical cluster analysis using Ward's method was employed to organize data into groups. The children had, on average, a FSIQ of 81, which is significantly lower than that expected in the general population. Four clusters were identified by the hierarchical clusters analysis. Three were characterized by low, average, and high intellectual ability. The last cluster was characterized by a verbal deficit. Findings also revealed that children's diagnoses were not related to any specific cluster, except for children with an intellectual disability with, as expected, low abilities. Children referred to an intellectual assessment in an early childhood mental health clinic showed an altered intellectual development, more specifically in the verbal domain. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01