Hi,
the son of my partner is 12 and 6 months
He is has an exceptional talent in music and drawing for his age (i'm highly trained in music so i'm able to judge his level).
He is also highly bored at school. The school he goes now seem to be a low level, so to get things clearer i proposed his parents that he passes the WISC test. Which he did. The psychologist here (small town) only had the WISC-IV and did a terrible interpretation (very poor and wrong on several aspects).
I'm quite new to all these tests but interested, so i studied since few days to interpret his results better.
His results shows a big gap in different aspects of intelligence.
He failed also on things (especially the worst one) because he complicated his way of doing. The exercise in itself is very easy, i verified this with him. But the fact that it was timed and that he suffers from anxiety made him take wrong decisions for his strategy.
We might do more tests, for anxiety, ADHD and asperger.
What i made him do is some fluid reasoning testing as from what i understand from his WISC results, that's where he is very good / excels.
Indeed the exercises focused on fluid intelligence are easy for him.
I suspect Asperger and/or ADHD because he shows signs and also because this discrepancy in results usually shows a disability.
Most aspergers don't do well on WISC/WAIS but great on fluid reasoning tests.
He seems to have a bad short term memory...
To remember numbers and letters he placed in his mind each of them as notes and created a melody, in order to remember letters and numbers in order.
It shows a Synesthesia (confirmed after, he attributes colors to letters etc). With that method he could do well (better auditive memory than visual).
Drawing with cubes, 38 = 11 years and 6 months
Similarities, 27 = 14 years and 6 months
Digit span, 15 = 10 years and 4 months
Pictures concept, 24 = more than 16 years and 7 months
Keys, 33 = 8 years and 2 months (he wouldn't have this low results if not timed, as i double checked his ability on this, anxiety is a big issue)
Vocabulary, 42 = 13 years and 10 months
Succession of numbers and letters, 20 = 15 years (created a music melody to remember)
Matrices, 25 = 14 years and 6 months
Comprehension, 23 = 10 years and 10 months
Find symbols, 28 = 12 years and 6 months
We will address the anxiety and adhd, asperger.
We plan on music, drawing and sciences classes.
I would be grateful for any of your lights on his results as you have the experience i lack.
Any advices on what we could do to improve his best skills (fluid intelligence)?
Maybe some apps that he could use or else to keep learning at home.
He speaks fluently spanish and english.
Thank you in advance
Very looking forward for some analysis from you.
Chaya
