On to the six year old:
His verbal and nonverbal reasoning skills are both quite good, although he is also stronger in the nonverbal area, relatively speaking. A similar pattern of relative weakness (though not as weak) in speeded/timed areas and memory is present, hence the relative weaknesses in cognitive efficiency, processing speed, short-term memory, and cognitive fluency. One of the striking differences is how strong his visual-auditory learning subtest was, which helped to pull up the long-term retrieval cluster score. This subtest is intended to investigate the kind of processes involved in learning to read (it uses a rebus task, matching orally-presented words to symbols). It isn't an exact match to the process, but between the strong score on this task and the very strong auditory processing score, one would predict strong reading achievement--which is what we do see, especially with regard to word calling (sight vocabulary). The associated written tasks are strong, too (e.g., spelling, writing samples).
Overall, this son presents with a more balanced, and thus uniformly strong, profile, with the achievement to match. Speed and short-term memory/attention are the relative weaknesses, but don't appear to have impacted achievement a whole lot. Keep in mind that he is also younger, so the normative expectations are lower, and relatively light on abstractions, so comparing the two children in any meaningful way (an enterprise fraught with danger at the best of times!), would be a bit murky from a validity standpoint.
