The measurement of mental retardation by a culture-specific test
T H E MEASUREMENT OF MENTAL RETARDATIOK
BY A CULTURE-SPECIFIC TEST
PEGGIE A. LONG AND JOHN J. ANTHONY
School Board of Alachua County
Gainesville, Fla.
For many years the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) (Wechsler,
1949) has been used as a major tool to screen students for placement in exceptional
child education programs for the educable mentally retarded (EMR). In recent
years the use of this instrum
