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    Thank you, polarbear - great perspective. I have no reason to believe that DD will not do well on this test. One test result should not change my perception of DD's abilities. The results (if surprisingly low) could make the advocacy at school much more difficult, though.

    DD's teacher sounded VERY supportive of doing whatever she could to get DD into the program (and she offered to do this on her own).

    I cannot comment on what types of kids make it in - I do not know the older children in the program well-enough to make that judgment. I do know that it sounds more similar to the type of instruction DD had in 1st and 2nd grade (not a formal gifted program, but actually sounds very similar in practice), which led to nice growth/progress (if you put any value on test scores). It sounds like if they do not make it in, DD is stuck in her general education classroom, while the teacher tries to teach many different levels of readers (her job does NOT sound easy). I feel for the teacher, but my concern has to be my DD. My focus is definitely on getting DD the instruction she needs.

    Thanks, again!

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    Originally Posted by polarbear
    Originally Posted by ElizabethN
    Originally Posted by blackcat
    The other issue was that since the developmental pediatrician got the results from her he stuck it in with other test information and therefore I couldn't share ANY of it with the school system.


    Can you ask the developmental pediatrician to generate a report without those results? If you explain to him what happened with the testing, it sounds like he would agree that it's not reliable, anyway.

    Our neuropsych generated a "redacted" version of her report that omitted parents' and family medical information that we didn't feel was any business of the school district. She offered to do it - it wasn't the result of a request from us (but only because I didn't think of it).

    I'd second Elizabeth's suggestion - the private professionals we've used (neuropsych and educational eval specialists) have all offered to generate reports from school that only included the relevant information from their evals and left out other extraneous info about family history, previous testing etc.

    polarbear

    Now that I think about it, it's probably too late. All that past testing info was probably in the latest neuropsych report since I gave him ALL the records. He told me to give the entire report to the school. And he documented every single thing. Luckily that also contained the 133 GAI info so at least it is updated IQ info and the other score is probably buried in the 10 page background info.
    I need to talk to the psych that tested DD and make sure the report she writes helps DD and doesn't hurt in any way. For instance I told her that DD is very difficult when not medicated along with detailed info about weaknesses.

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    UPDATE - SHE IS IN!!! Yippee!!!

    Thanks to all for your advice!!!

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    Great news! Good for her.

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    The gifted program you described sounds like a good match to her strengths. Good to hear she qualified. Sometimes the system does work.

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    I am just thrilled at the possibility of more challenging programming for her. I think there is a much better chance, now, that her educational needs will be met.

    FSIQ scores were actually > DYS level, but I know that DYS doesn't list (specific-Wechsler test) as one of their tests. Still, we plan to have DD take the Explore test.

    Thanks, again, for all of the support!!! smile

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