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The Leiter International Performance Scale—Revised (Leiter-R; Roid & Miller, 1997) is a battery of individually administered subtests, administered nonverbally and designed to assess cognitive functions in children, adolescents and young adults, ages 2 years, 0 months to 20 years, 11 months. An abbreviated scale derived from the Leiter-R, known as the Stoelting (Leiter) Brief Nonverbal Intelligence Test (S-BIT) for ages 6–20 was recently published separately (Roid & Miller, 1999). These tests are widely used to operationalize nonverbal intelligence by assessing fluid reasoning and visualization as well as nonverbal memory and attention on the Leiter-R (McGrew & Flanagan, 1998). The foundational model for the tests is a hierarchical model of general nonverbal ability composed of the four dimensions of reasoning, visualization, memory, and attention. The battery was nationally standardized on a normative sample of 1,719 subjects; shows high reliability and has strong evidence of validity in correlating with other widely used intelligence measures and in clinical diagnosis.
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Roid, G., Nellis, L., McLellan, M. (2003). Assessment with the Leiter International Performance Scale—Revised and the S-BIT. In: McCallum, R.S. (eds) Handbook of Nonverbal Assessment. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0153-4_6
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