Attention testing - 06/01/15 10:26 PM
Just had our feedback meeting with the psychologist assessing DD11 for possible ASD. We don't have the actual scores in hand yet, so I don't know the names of the instruments, but the attention tests were, um, attention-getting. (DD has a tentative ADHD-I diagnosis.)
On the simplest, most boring one (listen to a recorded voice, and push a red button every time it says "red"), she had a scaled score of 3. On the most complicated one (three different colors with different rules for which button to push for each, read by examiner instead of a recording), she had a scaled score of 18. This is probably the biggest difference I've ever seen or heard of for tests of the same child that are nominally measuring the same thing (attention).
It's obvious to me that these numbers will be useful if I ever need to advocate for more challenge at school. But does anyone have any other thoughts? aeh?
On the simplest, most boring one (listen to a recorded voice, and push a red button every time it says "red"), she had a scaled score of 3. On the most complicated one (three different colors with different rules for which button to push for each, read by examiner instead of a recording), she had a scaled score of 18. This is probably the biggest difference I've ever seen or heard of for tests of the same child that are nominally measuring the same thing (attention).
It's obvious to me that these numbers will be useful if I ever need to advocate for more challenge at school. But does anyone have any other thoughts? aeh?