Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Parenting and Advocacy Psych test says gifted, school retest says no

Are these the only numbers you have for the WJ-III testing that the school gave? If so, I think it's possible (maybe probable) that they didn't give your ds the full WJ-III Test of Cognitive Abilities, and if that's the case, then you don't have an apples-to-apples comparison with the FSIQ and GAI from his previous WISC.

Do you have any number on the report from the WJ-III called the "GIA"? That would be what you need to compare to the FSIQ. There isn't a corresponding # for the WISC GAI (taking out Processing Speed and Working Memory), however (fwiw), my ds, with a very low Processing Speed on the WISC has a WJ-III GIA that is almost identical to his WISC GAI.

My guess is that the school psych used a subset of the WJ-III Cognitive subtests combined with a subset (math and reading) of the WJ-III Achievement subtests to come up with the #s you have above. You can most likely google to find out which WJ-III subtests are combined for each category that you have listed. If this is the case, you really don't have anything you can compare, and it's likely that the differences in #s you're seeing are related (possibly) to whatever caused the need to calculate the GAI rather than FSIQ on the WISC.


As I mentioned above, my EG ds has a very slow processing speed on the WISC (due to fine motor issues), and has a corresponding slow subtest on the WJ-III Cognitive, but his WJ-III GIA # is almost identical to his WISC GAI. OTOH, you can definitely see the impact of his fine motor challenge on the WJ-III *Achievement* test scores (the subtests that are timed and require written output have much lower scores than would be predicted based on his overall IQ. So yes, it's possible that on the achievement subtests you'd see an impact. Also possible you might see an impact on GIA, but I'd expect it to fall in the range of at least his FSIQ.

Best wishes,

polarbear