Abstract
The revised edition of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA) and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) were subjected to factor analysis. Using principal components analysis with varimax rotation, 5 factors were extracted from data on 94 emotionally disturbed boys with an average age of 121.3 mo. The first factor was loaded with WISC verbal subtests. The second factor emphasized the automatic level of communicative organization of both ITPA and WISC. The third factor dealt with representational level WISC subtests. The fourth factor concerned the expressive category of the representation level, while the fifth factor embodied the associative phase of the psycholinguistic processes.
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