Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Identification, Testing & Assessment At what age is a LD likely to be found?

A psych I have been asking/consulting with is recommending the WISC V and K-TEA 3 (after waiting a few more months. Would those tests diagnose dyslexia and/or dysgraphia? I guess I don't even understand how they are diagnosed? Is it based on differences between IQ and achievement or something else? I mean, if a student is able to guess words correctly while reading but they are guessing, is that really accurate information? And IDK at all how dysgraphia is diagnosed still, if it's not purely on writing samples.

Yes. They could be used to Dx dyslexia/dysgraphia. The discrepancy approach could be used for that. Or the PSW (pattern of strengths and weaknesses) approach, which was taken into consideration in the design of the WISC-V.

There are nonsense word reading tasks on the KTEA-3, which are supposed to distinguish between good guessing words from context/memorized whole word reading and actual decoding.

Dysgraphia diagnosis does rely heavily on writing samples, timed and otherwise, which the KTEA-3 would obtain, in addition to deficits in other associated skills, such as fine-motor skills/visual-motor integration, motor speed, and strengths/intact skills in areas such as oral language (in order to distinguish from the combined oral and written language disorders).