COMPARISON OF WECHSLER VS MAYO SUMMARY SCORES IN A CLINICAL-SAMPLE

Normative bases for the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAI S-R) and the Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised (WMS-R) recently were exten ded through age 97 with the publication of norms that permit computati on of MAYO IQs for the WAIS-R and MAYO Memory Indices for the WMS-R. T his study compares traditional Wechsler summary scores with their corr esponding MAYO values in a clinical sample. MAYO summary scores are co rrelated highly with traditional Wechsler values, and concordance rate s are also strong. Despite their similarities MAYO summary scores and traditional Wechsler values are not interchangeable. Cautions are disc ussed relative to the use of both MAYO and traditional Wechsler IQs an d Memory Indices.