**13. Child H—range of performance on WISC-V indices (February 2021) here**

As in the IQ administered in 2016 and 2019, Child H's performance in all areas of the test was in the normal range. Comparing the test profiles, there was still evidence of some scatter in level of performance across different areas of the test, but within the different areas of the test there was far more homogeneous performance.


#### **Table 7.**

*Child H – range of performance on WISC-V indices (February 2021).*

The verbal comprehension profile in 2021 indicated that Child H had welldeveloped verbal reasoning ability, and average vocabulary, comprehension, general knowledge and verbal classification abilities relative to age level. The perceptual reasoning side of the test indicated adequately developed perceptual and spatial abilities relative to age level, but the previous weakness in non-verbal reasoning was no longer evident, while the scores in the working memory side indicated good short-term auditory memory as well as good sequential memory for letters and numbers.

Relative to Child H's standard scores in other areas of the test, there were still difficulties in processing speed. There was still a particular weakness in coding, but the standard scores indicated improvement relative to Child H's performance on this subtest in the IQ administered 3 years previously.

Overall there was thus evidence of some scatter in the test scores, but a far less scattered profile compared to those from both the previously administered IQ tests. This was evident from the graph presented below, which groups the standard scores on the IQ by cognitive area (**Figure 12**).
