Did he also take the two supplemental subtests of the Beery: Visual Perception and Motor Coordination? My DS took the Beery at 6.5 years and scored in the average range on VMI (39th percentile with an age equivalence of 6yr3mo). However, he also took the two subtests and scored in the 99th percentile on Visual Perception (age equivalence of 10yr3mo) but <1st percentile on Motor Coordination (age equivalence of 3yr6mo)! His overall Beery VMI score only looked average because his extremely poor motor skills are compensated by his extremely strong visual perception skills.
ditto. DS has very good visual perception skills and on the visual perception test (a separate test) he was overall scoring like a 9 year old even though he's 6, hitting the ceiling on a few of the sub-tests. But motor coordination is very poor. Therefore on the Beery he scored 65th percentile. What really made the terrible motor skills stand out was a test the neuropsych did called the Grooved Pegboard test, which is timed and involves screwing pegs into a board. He had Z-scores that were literally like -5. Not sure what percentile that is, but it's very low (below the first percentile).
