APE is adaptive physical education. It's combination modified gym and physical therapy, often led by a PT, but potentially with good results from a gym teacher with additional training and/or PT consult.

There are 25 verbal items on the information subtest, plus 4 picture items which are automatically credited if the basal for the verbal items is made. Presumably, he received a raw score of 25. Yes, clearly the person presenting the evaluation findings was not properly trained in test interpretation.

pb's advice is a good thought. There may also be info on advocacy groups on the state DOE website's SPED page.


...pronounced like the long vowel and first letter of the alphabet...