Greetings all
Given that many here have a great deal of experience of "making sense" of IQ scores, I am interested in thoughts on the following.
My daughter E. was 6.0 years at testing which happened at the end of May. She was in a part-time language immersion kindergarden program at the local public school after 2 yrs. in a montessori program, and will move to 1st grade in the same program in the fall. E was psycho-assessed as she was vehemently opposing going to school, but the teacher said she was happy at school. We were also aware that her writing was poor, she doesn't draw or color (but can operate a computer joystick) and had had gross motor issues that have improved greatly over the last 6th months with a lot of gymnastics, swimming, skating etc. She is physically small for her age.
We need to work out how to improve school for her, given that acceleration is not an option. We thought that E was bright, but were surprised that the scores are so high. It looks like she has good cause to be frustrated with the pace of school, and the amount of coloring that she has to do. The question is though - should I be concerned that her Processing Speed is relatively low? Is there more than boredom at play here? She is very young - is it likely writing etc. just a maturational issue (I realise that WISC IQ scores are age-normed.) These are the reported scores:
Verbal 144 99.8
Perceptual 144 99.8
Working Memory 114 82
Processing Speed 91 27
FSIQ = 135 99%
GAI = 156 99.9th
Her basic reading skills (WIAT-III) are at the 95th percentile, with the strongest performance in early reading skills (96th) and the poorest in sight word knowledge (87th). (She doesn't like to read aloud though. She loves to be read to though and will read silently if we read.) Her Beery-VMI was at the 50th percentile.
Does anyone have any ideas/insight into where I should go next in trying to help the child/school fit? I am hoping to find some parents who are a few years down this path and share the wisdom of hindsight...
Thanks for reading through this over-long e-mail.
Best wishes
Nadro
