Thanks for those links AcuLady. A lot of it went over my head and I will need to go back and re-read properly when I have more time.
My DD went for an assessment with an ASD specialist team a week and a half ago and she was so borderline that they were unable to make the call. They are going to observe her at school, in about 6 weeks time, before deciding. If she does cross the line I have the impression that they will be calling it Aspergers. But I do wonder intermittently if HFA might be more appropriate. She has visual processing issues, now somewhat resolved, and struggles to learn gross motor skills, but she also has distinct language based quirks that pull her verbal IQ down. I think she's more spatially than verbally gifted (thinking, not physically). Her most recent IQ test was the SB5, which is a much better fit for her strengths so we had it done to point out to school that she does actually have strengths too. The interesting thing was that the SB5 allowed her to really show her visual spatial strength, which the WISC did not, and in her areas of strength her scaled scores in the NV were 2-3 points higher than her V (ie a full SD or close to it).
Nonverbal IQ 132 / 98th
Verbal IQ 127 / 96th
Full Scale IQ 131 / 98th
NV Fluid Reasoning (routing) 14
V Fluid Reasoning 15
NV Knowledge 15
V Knowledge (routing) 15
NV Quantitative Reasoning 16
V Quantitative Reasoning 13
NV Visual-Spatial Processing 17*
V Visual-Spatial Processing 15
NV Working Memory 13
V Working Memory 13
However, the SB5 does little to show her weaknesses (like a 6 on coding at the most recent assessment, where they administered the WMI and PSI subtest portions only, given the SB5 had been done so recently). She's just really hard to make sense of, how much is being female and gifted compensating for her quirks? How much are her quirks pulling down her IQ? What exactly are her quirks? Because it looks like a little bit of everything, we have letter salad already without getting the ASD label, but all of them borderline... Just barely CAPD, just barely ADHD-i, clearly dyslexic according to the ASD team but not dyslexic at all according to everyone else we took her to... she might get OCD and anxiety in time, and so on.
It would be so nice if we could get the answers from a blood draw and gene test :-).
