DS had the Woodcock Johnson Achievement as part of his IEP eval. Does your DS have an IEP? Can't remember. If so, when is he up for a re-evaluation? The school is supposed to do a comprehensive eval every 3 years (or more often if you request one). Comprehensive evals involve looking at cognitive ability and academic achievement.
Keep in mind the Woodcock Johnson Achievement involves fluency/writing on each section and those sections are timed. Even the reading fluency section involved writing. DS was slower in every section labeled "fluency" because he had to write. His broad math was still 155 though. I can't remember your DS's specific issues (ie whether he has a writing or speed issue) so not sure if this helps. I am doubtful that my DD would do well on an achievement test like the WJ because she is so slow.
edited to add, I looked at the other posts in this thread again and it looks like he had it last year? Then you should know about the writing/timing aspect and whether it's an issue.
Yes, he had one this time last year at school at my insistence, actually. I naively thought we'd get the dysgraphia identified and I wanted him looked at for dyslexia. School psych said she didn't see dyslexia at all but could see evidence of dysgraphia - however, none of that ended up in her report... Apparently, schools do not use the word dysgraphia and simply g about pretending it does not exist... Anyway, that's why I know if I insist on testing again this year it won't go over well and I'll look like a crackpot.
As they already did an entire re-eval last year. Plus as a result of that eval was when they tried to sneak away his accommodations. Because the eval triggered the entire iep process again; they took the opportunity to re-write the iep with very watered down writing accommodations. This, as many of you remember, triggered the big "war" I had with them, and I had to hire a lawyer. Ultimately, it worked out for us b/c DS ended up with even stronger more thorough accommodations than he had originally and I ended up losing like 8lbs
but it was a knock-down drag-out battle during which I lost weight and a tremendous amount of sleep.
I did talk with the tester about his EDS and dysgraphia and accommodations he gets... She said she'll do as much orally as she can. She was a special-ed teacher and advises and evals homeschooled special-ed students so she seemed very good with that aspect.
