"within normal range". That doesn't mean the discrepancies aren't significant or aren't impacting your ds, it's just that schools are often looking for much lower "low end" scores to meet the cut-off bars for services. If the school staff start saying "it's all average and good", rather than pointing to discrepancies from low-high on testing, we found it was most helpful to bring the conversation back to our children's actual schoolwork samples to illustrate the problems they were having (but that's just our experience in our one school district). "
Thank you for this advice! We just came back from a pre-meeting with the school pychcologist, and this is exactly what we have been told. She also said that at this time he does have a disability and therefore does not qualify for an IEP based on that. But also that we can discuss if he qualfies under other health impairment with his full IEP team. We have a meeting with them tomorrow to determine if he needs an IEP.
We specifically asked if it was possible that DS could be 2E. She explained they use different testing to determine that, and that she could not conclusively rule it out with the tests result we have. But she really doesn't think that he is 2E either. Just bright. But this is confusing to us because of he thinking ability cluster scores.
