I recently requested an IEP evaluation from our school for my DS, currently 8y 3m, and in 3rd grade, based on diagnosis of dyslexia and dysgraphia by a private evaluated. (He was also previously diagnosed with ADHD, about 3 years ago, and is medicated though one could wish he was less impulsive than he still is.)
In our meeting the new school psych INSISTED up and down that he has no reading issues and variations in his test scores are just "ADHD distraction." Now I'm pretty sure he wasn't very distracted, the evaluator's write-up would've mentioned it, and anyway, my son apparently had a blast in testing and even asked to go do it again. But the school can only see that he's reading on grade level and (in part thanks to 1 year of private OT) his handwriting is fairly legible--even though he HATES to write and drags his feet horribly.
What do you think of these scores? Is this as strong a case for stealth dyslexia as I understand it to be? I mean, some of his reading-related scores are well below his grade equivilent--Kindergarten or 1st grade. But I know GEs are iffy things. The school denied the IEP evaluation but said they will do in-house testing and provide classroom accomodations for whatever they find. The school psych insisted he could NOT have dyslexia since his reading comprehension and pseudoword reading is so good. She was especialy obsessed with the pseudoword decoding business and his oral reading fluency which (without comprehension components) is quite good. And she was 125% convinced that his only problem was ADHD/paying attention to the test. But did she say that because his results are ACTUALLY just random, or is this a pattern that says "dyslexia!" that she was unaware of/ignoring?
Scores from outside eval:
WISC-V:
FSIQ: 138
GAI: 141
The indexes are all at 99%-99.9%, except Processing Speed, which is 82%.
NEPSY-II:
Comprehension of Instructions: SS 10, %ile 50th
BEERY:
VMI: SS 97
Visual Perception: SS 120
Motor Coordiantion: SS 88
WIAT-III:
Composite Indices SS Percentiles
Mathematics 108 70th
Math Fluency 91 27th
Written Expression 98 45th
Basic Reading 103 58th
WIAT-III Subtests SS / %iles / Grade Equivalencies
Numerical Operations 105 63rd 4:4
Math Problem Solving 108 70th 4:9
Math Fluency – Addition 96 39th 2:8
Math Fluency – Subtractio 87 19th 2:3
Math Fluency – Multiplica 91 27th 3:5
Alphabet Writing Fluency 90 25th 2:0
Spelling 91 27th 2:5
Sentence Composition 111 77th 7:2
Sentence Combining 125 95th --
Sentence Building 95 37th --
Essay Composition 97 42nd 3:9
Early Reading Skills 86 18th 1:7
Word Reading 105 63rd 4:2
Pseudoword Decoding 103 58th 4:6
Reading Comprehension 103 58th 5:0
Composite Indices / SS / Percentiles
Phonological Awareness / 110 / 75th
Phonological Memory / 95 / 37th
Rapid Naming / 98 / 45th
CTOPP-2 Subtests / SS / AE / GE
Elision / 15 / >14-09 / >9:7
Blending Words / 12 / >14-09 / >9:7
Phoneme Isolation / 7 / 6-06 / 1:4
Memory for Digits / 11 / 9-00 / 4:0
Nonword Repetition / 7 / 5-03 / K:2
Rapid Digit Naming / 9 / 7-03 / 2:2
Rapid Letter Naming / 10 / 7-09 / 2:7
Most recent STAR test scores reported to me verbally by school:
reading: 53%
math: 99%
He reads for 1-2 hours a day. For fiction he mostly reads graphic novels or books like Captain Underpants. He also reads non-fiction like Horrible Science magazine.
Last edited by Aufilia; 01/19/18 12:32 AM.
