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It is really frustrating trying to compare the different tests. I wish we had had a follow-up WISC for our dd after she completed her first round of VT. Instead she had the WJ-III Cog a few years later and to be honest, I haven't ever tried to figure out the correlations for her. Not because it wouldn't be interesting... more so simply because I have a hard time just keeping up with getting lunches ready for school each day with all the craziness at our house

I can't believe your WISC report used the word "retarded" - argh! On SO many levels... dd scored lower than .5th percentile on one of her subtests that was impacted by vision... I can still remember how my stomach fell through my feet when I saw that result at the neuropsych follow-up and before we had confirmed it was related to a vision issue.

polarbear

Yeah it was like a graph/chart thing showing me where his scores fell and that was the label they had on the area where his scores fell for working memory and processing...

Polarbear, did your DD do syntonic light therapy as a part of her vision therapy? My Ds' doctor isn't into that and doesn;t offer it but I am thinking of giving it a shot for DS if I can find someone to do it... Just wondering if you have any experience with it?

My dd did do the light therapy toward the end of her VT (where she looked into a box with different/changing colors of light. I'm not sure it was all that helpful - she was doing so many different things, and I never really understood how it was supposed to help... and by the time the light therapy was included she'd passed that early spike of rapid improvement and was starting to burn out on weekly VT appointments combined with daily exercises at home. We did have the light box at home for awhile... I had forgotten a lot of this... it's possible I might remember more about it after my brain's pulled it up from long-term memory... if I do, I'll let you know!

polarbear

I was just curious if she did it! But if you do remember anything significant about it let me know! Thanks!

I tell you I think the psych I used for the Wisc was crappy - she was with AI Dupont but it was terrible experience ... The part labled "extremely low" on that was labled "retarded." Also the "borderline" part was labeled "borderline retarded." Whatever. I can't say I recommend AI Dupont for this stuff for many reasons.

That report was simply awful... it seemed they went out of their way to paint a really disturbing picture of DS - unnecessarily and it was very upsetting. Your reactiosn to them using "retarded" just is further evidence. I had no idea it wasn't used in general.

I am thankful that this report while not without pointing out deficits and issues is still very positive and the psych seemed to accurately see and report DS's strengths and positives.

The state where I live has switched from the eligibility category label of Mental Retardation to Intellectual Disability just within the past two or three years, I believe.

I spend a lot of time trying to prove that my clients are mentally retarded, with severe deficits in adaptive functioning.

From your friends, the Feds:

"12.05 Mental retardation: Mental retardation refers to significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive functioning initially manifested during the developmental period; i.e., the evidence demonstrates or supports onset of the impairment before age 22."

http://www.socialsecurity.gov/disab...ok/12.00-MentalDisorders-Adult.htm#12_05