Wais-iv: Pruebas

The final subtest was Block Design . She took out the red-and-white cubes. “Make this,” she said, sliding a picture of a diagonal diamond pattern toward him.

He let go. The blocks scattered. And then he did something she had never seen in twenty years of administering the WAIS-IV. He didn’t ask for his score. He didn’t rationalize. He simply laid his forehead on the cool metal table and whispered, “I built a hospital last year. Now I can’t build a four-block square.” wais-iv pruebas

Her client, a man named Mateo who listed his occupation as “architect,” nodded. He had requested the WAIS-IV evaluation himself. “I feel foggy,” he’d said on the phone. “Like the blueprints in my head have turned to scribbles.” He was only thirty-four. The final subtest was Block Design

Mateo’s hands trembled. He picked up a cube, turned it, put it down. He assembled two cubes correctly, then froze. Instead of rotating the pattern in his mind, he tried to force the physical blocks to match a memory that was no longer there. He pressed a white triangle against a red half-square. It didn’t fit. He pushed harder. He let go