What our neuropsychologists have told us just as a general rule of thumb isn't that certain tests generally correlate, but that people who have roughly the same overall level of ability across all tests tend to have the easiest time in life, regardless of IQ. "Roughly the same" means scores within one SD of each other. OTOH, people with widely varying scores, lots of scatter, may have more challenges.
I think that the thing to do next (vwmommy) is to read through a good explanation of what each WISC subtest is testing, and think through what challenges you've seen for your ds (if you've seen any, academic or behavior). Then you'll be prepared to piece together what's going on when you get the full report. It's hard to know what questions to ask specifically about his WISC scores at this point simply because you don't know how the subtest scores varied.
In general, I can tell you a few things about my kids - but our experience might not be in any way the same as your ds, just food for thought. My ds13 initially had dips in both WM and PS, but his WM scores came up when he was tested on the WISC again at 10, and our neuorpsych said that WM is the one subtest where you may see gains as children mature. His dip in PS is related to a fine-motor disability and hasn't changed, but dips in PS can be related to many different things (and possibly nothing at all), so it took further neuropsych testing to determine why his PS score was so low relative to his other scores.
My dd8 has extremely high PS and WM scores (both are even higher than her other scores, which are also very strong). She has a challenge with a different type of memory, however, and is struggling with some of her academics as a 2e kid. You can see the high PS and WM in action in her most of the time - she works very quickly. It's great for timed math fact tests but combined with her 2e-issue, it can also cause her a ton of frustration.
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