Kai - I have no idea how the evaluator handled the questions or responses. I was relegated to the waiting room.
Thanks for giving me hope that things can improve.
After the evaluator gave me the sheet with the raw scores, he could tell I was upset and asked why. I told I'm it was not an accurate picture of my son's intellect. So then he asked me why I want so badly for my son to be gifted when he obviously wasn't. His bias in that reply has made me skeptical that he can differentiate between results that are skewed due to whatever issues are going on beyond the dysgraphia and what is an accurate assessment of his abilities.
When I told him there was no way my son had an IQ of 92, he got defensive and said, "Are you really going to challenge me and question my results?"
I told him that yes, I was, because I'd known my kid for twelve years and had raised two gifted kids besides this one and had managed to stay married to a profoundly gifted husband for almost 25 years so I had some relevance to bring to my assumption that the results were not accurate.
After that, the neuropsych backed off when he realized my reaction wasn't about the ego of wanting a gifted kid but of wanting appropriate help for my son. He acknowledged that the dysgraphia and dyslexia would come into play on parts of the test, that it was obvious my son had an auditory processing issue (news to me) and that there were other factors at play for which he didn't have clear answers, he talked about the scatter, etc. - so I still can't figure out why he was so defensive. He also pointed out that my son "over-thought the test which caused him to do poorly both due to speed and unacceptable answers".
Hearing your own experience of the GAI changing that significantly helps bolster my courage to keep pushing for better answers and accomodations so my son can realize his own potential.
