block design test - your experience?

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that makes sense. i think people with AS tend to be good at the test, like you were.

First time I remember doing it was when I was 15 and it was in a computer game. It was a Madeline game and it had a bunch of activities on it and one of them had that test so I clicked on it and did it. I don't remember what order I did it in but I looked at the picture and picked up each pattern and put it in the right spot. My teachers saw it and said I was good at it and I said it was easy so how would it be hard. They just said I am very visual. I thought if anyone would actually struggle with it.

My Block Design score was very high. I just mentally divided up the image into a grid and put the blocks down. It was a very trivial task for me; I just couldn't see why anyone ever had a problem with it. I know I ceilinged out that subtest because I was still easily completing patterns when there were no more left. Oddly enough, my Performance subscore is the lower of my subscores--the oddest thing about my IQ scores isn't the gap or the overall score, but the extreme scatter between subtests. I'm pretty sure the scatter would be even wider if there had been more puzzles on the tests that I hit ceilings on. The vocabulary test was trivially easy, for example--I could've finished it entirely by age nine or ten. But there were other tests that were very difficult, for example the symbol-coding or the one where you were supposed to put the pictures in order of a story. I had to talk myself through that last one, out loud, and I still didn't do very well on it.

Is this block test used mainly for Asperger's testing or is it also used for normal IQ tests? I ask because I remember taking this test as a kid, but it was supposedly for an IQ test.

yeah it's for adults too. i was reading it is a good test for aspies in some cases as it tests intelligence a little differently.


and wow Callista. are you a genius?

I think it's used for normal IQ tests. That's when they always gave me the block design. I vaguely remember doing the IQ tests. I remember one of the tests is with mazes and putting puzzles together. I remember I had a hard time with the soccer ball but when I was 10, I was able to put it together because I've done it before and I was older and the staff who did the testing told me she always had a hard time with that puzzle.

The last time I did an IQ test was when I was 12 but I don't remember it. It was when I was being tested to see if I had AS and I scored above average at the time when before it was in the average range.

Plus one of the testing they do is they say numbers and you repeat them back. Same as sequencing pictures about what order they happen in.

About AS testing, I am not sure but I know they do the IQ test as well.

Was that a psychoeducational analysis?


I have to get my assessment redone (I have a diagnosis, but no report which I need for student loan and disability purposes). I have an interview at my school tomorrow to see if they will pay for the psychoed. I am curious if anyone knows: if they do a psychoed for the purpose of also diagnosing autism, do they include the ADIR and ADOS tests in there as well?

hunh. i don't actually know, because i couldn't tell some of what they were doing.