Is it possible to diagnosis dyslexia with the WISC?
I hope someone knows more about this than I do who will come along and answer soon, but it seems doubtful.
Would dyslexia or a visual processing disorder and/or visual motor integration negatively affect an IQ score?
Certian parts of the test would surely be affected.
Is your tester the one who is suggesting the dyslexia and visual processing disorder? Can you arrange a meeting to sit down and go over the info? Which test was used?
Do you want to post the various subscale results?
Grinity
Currently she is 8 years old. She was tested at age 6 at a college by a psychology student. The tester says there are no indications of a learning disability (comparing her WISC results to her WIAT results).
VCISimilarities 11
Vocabulary 10
Comprehension 14
PRIBlock Design 15
Picture Concepts 14
Matrix Reasoning 09
WMIDigit Span 10
Letter Number Sequencing 07
Processing SpeedCoding 09
Symbol Search 09
Ten months ago we had her evaluated by a well recommended OT who works only with children. She was diagnosed with dyspraxia and a visual motor integration disorder. The OT also said she tested positive for 3 primitive reflexes that should no longer be present past the age of 1. She also commented that she had similar test results as the dyslexic children she sees/evaluates.
We had her evaluated by a developmental optometrist at the age of 6 1/2. Her vision is perfect. In visual discrimination she tested the highest possible as a 13 yo, and visual memory as an 11 yo. But tested below her age for visual memory that required her to recreate what she saw/remembered on paper. Her other weaknesses were directionality, laterality, and tracking. He suggested vision therapy but we don't have thousands of dollars to spend on controversial therapy. I have a friend whose son is dyslexia and they spent 4k on therapy (prior to the dyslexic diagnosis) and it did nothing for him.
She is struggling with learning to read, has difficulty sounding out unfamiliar words, confuses easy small words (such as when, was, that), skips small words, and has no sense of punctuation while reading. In spelling she will often have the right letters in the word but not in the right order. Her teacher will also mark words wrong for letters that are backwards. So she can fail a spelling test but if you ask her to spell the same words out loud she'll get them correct. And no matter how long the word is or how fast I spell it out loud she can tell which word I'm spelling. In fact, we have a secret language where we speak only in spell without even acknowledging where the spaces are for the words. She also reverses her numbers and gets them marked wrong. And she frequently will transpose numbers for instance making 43 a 34 and this is causing problems in math where she has to borrow and carry.
Her strengths are science and history. When she was 3 she started watching documentaries geared for adults on t.v. One I recall was about why the levees failed in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina or about ancient Egypt (her greatest love). And today she still prefers these types of educational over cartoons. She has an amazing long term memory. She can remember facts she learned years ago and will spout them off to me and I didn't even know she knew the stuff (i.e. how old Napoleon was when he died and how he died). But asking her to remember 8+4 is impossible.
At the age of 5 while we were reading a space book she tells me the photo of the man stepping on the moon couldn't be the first person on the moon (as the caption claimed). That the person taking the photo was actually the first person on the moon. This is the photo I'm referring to:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dVj-kNcst...o/s1600/62288main_aldrin_ladder_full.jpg And she was right, after some research I discovered that it was Neil Armstrong who had the camera on the moon and took all the photographs while on the moon.
I get frustrated when I hear her teachers tell me she could get better grades if she applied herself. Yet in math, spelling, and reading she is really trying. We have been working on reading for 3 years now and her progress has been minimal. My daughter is upset that she can't read and write as well as her classmates. She is very frustrated and it is hurting her self-esteem. She fails spelling tests that I know if the teacher asked her to spell the words orally she'd get them right. She can read a story 3 times (once in class, once with me reading to her, and once she reads to me) but b/c she can't read the questions on the comprehension test (about the story) she fails the test. If you were ask her orally the questions she could tell you the answers. I feel all of this is affecting her grades imo.
I'm really not sure where to go from here.
