Psyc finally updated DS's full report last night... Not entirely happy with the report, or the testing. Seems she "gave up" quickly on testing his main academic area of frustration, his expressive writing and spend hours testing the ASD side of things. There is one really low score in Essay Writing on the WIAT-III that puts DS at 0.5% or less than a 3rd grade level. While this would easily qualify him for a 504/IEP and therefore meets my needs. I can't see the school believing this number, as he sometimes gets A's on H.S. honors level essays. It's more of a "block" when he does write he writes well. And this report does not reflect this very well. I will be getting back the psyc on this but I hopefully I can get feedback from the Educational Therapist, and my husband before I send her back feedback.
There were a lot of tests done.. scores on the WISC are as follows. (I might edit this to remove test scores in a few days)
WISC IV
VCI: 121 (92%)
Similarities: 17 (99%)
Vocab: 14 (91%)
Comprehension: 10 (50%)
PRI: 137 (99%)
Block Design: 15 (95%)
Picture Concepts: 17 (99%)
Matrix Reasoning: 16 (98%)
WMI: 99 (47%)
Digit Span: 9 (37%)
Letter-Number Seq.: 11 (63%)
PSI: 94 (34%)
Coding: 9 (37%)
Symbol Search: 9 (37%)
Full Scale 120 (91%)
WAIT-III
Listening Comprehension 114 82nd 11.5
Reading Comprehension 122 93rd >12.9
Math Problem Solving 131 98th >12.9
Sentence Composition 111 77th >12.9
Word Reading 114 82nd >12.9
Essay Composition 61 0.5th <3.0 *******
Pseudoword Decoding 112 79th >12.9
Numerical Operations 124 95th >12.9
Oral Reading Fluency 109 73rd 12.9
Oral Reading Accuracy 89 23rd 6.5
Oral Reading Rate 108 70th >12.9
Total Reading 119 90%
Basic Reading 114 82%
Reading Comprehension and Fluency 119 90th
Mathematics 130 98th
I notice she did not include a GAI and I am going to ask her to include this. When I found a link that describes how to calculate a GAI, it seems as if his GAI would be 135.
