Trying to solve the puzzle of potential learning disabilities.
DS 10 got in district gifted program and is thriving there. At least he is socially happy and more adequately challenged. However, also as expected his problems in some areas are more obvious as the work becomes more challenging.
He is top at his class for math and vocabulary but below average in reading comprehension, specifically producing a report after reading assigned story.
In the teacher parent conference today, his teacher pointed out areas of concerns such as following and suggested testing for learning disabilities.
1. Very slow in making switch to a new task
2. little or slow response to the teacher when speaking to directly
3. Difficult to maintain focus on tasks such as reading a passage of uninteresting material and trying to summarize the story.
4. Poor eye contact
DS was tested at 7 with the profile below and was treated for vision issues, which did not make much differences, so we stopped after 12 sessions. We also suspect he might have auditory issues as he fit a numbers of the symptoms of CAPD.
But what do we do from here, get him retested by a psychologist? or find different specialists for different issues?
We live in southern California, any suggestions are very appreciated.
Thanks
Similarity 15
Vocabulary 11
Comprehension 11
Block design 16
Picture concept 15
Matrix reasoning 19
Digit span 14
Letter number 15
Arithmetic 14
Coding 13
Symbol search 9
Cancellation 8
The tester recalculated the GAI and got 132(98%).
