ESTABLISHING A PSYCHO-EDUCATIONAL PROFILE OF A BOY WITH NONVERBAL LEARNING DISORDER: A SINGLE-SUBJECT CASE STUDY

This paper presents a case study of a boy (CA: 9 years 3 months) who is suspected of having nonverbal learning disorder. The study aims to provide a differential diagnosis by examining and establishing a psycho-educational evaluation and profiling using existing psychological assessment report (WISC-III) and six literacy tests. Though no significant discrepancies in the literacy tests (i.e., word recognition and comprehension) was found, psycho-educational evaluation found that the verbal scale subtests is higher than the performance scale subtests, both with significant discrepancies. Overall, use of instrumental profiling provided evidence that nonverbal learning disorder associated Asperger’s Syndrome with dyspraxia may be present in this case study.