Hi everyone. Despite lurking on and off for a few months, I haven't had the gumption to post 11-yr-old DS 1's "numbers". Just now I'm sitting here staring at the Davidson YS application, wondering if it's presumptuous to apply, stumped on who would or could write a letter of recommendation. We welcome help: the numbers seem atypical--it's only thanks to Hoagies, Davidson, Wrightslaw, NAGC, CTD, SENG and other sites that I know these digits hold any importance whatsoever.
Around here we've only heard about letters: ADHD, GAD, SPD, 2E... Feeling that numbers should receive at least as much attention as alphabet soup, we began homeschooling DS1 this year rather than subject him to another year of "working on" his IEP to determine whether he's an underachiever or just plain stupid at a suburban-IL school that "doesn't accept outside testing", answers most email with "we know what is best for our students" and holds that "all kids are gifted". At home he is finally happy, healthy, making new friends, on appropriate stimulant meds and in OT for vestibular/proprio processing. He struggles greatly with speed, composing and handwriting but is mastering materials between 2-5 years above grade-level. We're working on typing but it's slow going.
Here are DS1's scores on the WISC-IV from 9/2010, 9y10m old. At that time he was on excessive ADHD meds, severely sleep-deprived, depressed and dangerously underweight. The testing doctor was kind, experienced mainly in hospital psych setting, but the only one insurance could find in-network within a 50-mile radius. We left with little explanation, no ed recommendations and a sinking feeling. Tests for IQ, motor skills, reading and ADHD were spread over two sessions. I'm not sure which to include, so here is what I have. Thank you in advance for honest advice and direction.
WISC-IV
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VCI: 140
Similarities: 19
Vocab: 16
Comprehension: 15
Information: 16
PRI: 149
Block Design: 19
Picture Concepts: 19
Matrix Reason: 16
WMI: 104
Digit Span: 7
Letter-Number: 15
-digit-span-forward: 6
-digit-span-backward: 11
-longest-digit span forward: 8
-longest-digit span backward: 4
PSI: 73
Coding: 3
Symbol Search: 7
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WIAT-2
Word-reading: 129
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TOWL- 99th %ile, took an extremely long time to begin and complete
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Visual-Motor Integration: 99th %ile
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Delis-Kaplan Design Fluency Test SS: filled dots-6, empty dots-5, switching-8
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Delis-Kaplan Trail-Making:
visual scanning: 100%
number sequencing: 100%
letter sequencing: 100% but almost over time limit
number-letter switching: 27/32 and over time limit by three minutes
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FSIQ: 127
GAI: 155 (My estimate as "GAI" was not mentioned by doctor, testing or school--is this accurate given the three subtest 19s?)
