Hello,
I am new here and looking for help understanding my DS8. We recently took him for a full neuropsych evaluation because of increasing problems with emotional outbursts, perfectionism, anxiety, and intensity. His older brother is highly gifted/ADHD.
The results are confusing. He was diagnosed with Generalised Anxiety Disorder and possible DCD which we don't see at all. He's an amazing artist and very coordinated athlete. His achievement scores are way higher than his IQ scores. His IQ scores are gifted verbal but high average in the rest.
His achievement scores are below. Wondering how much anxiety impacted testing since he clearly does not have a fine motor issue even though the NEPSY testing indicates he does.
Basic Reading 129 97th
Math Fluency 157 > 99th
Word Reading 129 97th
Pseudo word Decoding 120 91
Spelling 148 >99th
Math Problem Solving 141 > 99th
Math Fluency: Addition 151 > 99th
Math Fluency: Subtraction 160 >99th
Is it unusual to see such a discrepancy between achievement and IQ? And should we also dismiss the fine motor findings since we don't see this at all in his daily life? Finally, he also scored low on the social perception tests and attention tests. Could he also be ADHD?
