He said there are significant auditory processing issues that come into play and that he "over thought" his answers and ended up getting several wrong because of giving too detailed of an answer (how are green and red the same? Answer they wanted - both are colors. My son? Both are on the light spectrum, blah, blah, blah). But that answer is wrong on the IQ test.
The test results are invalid due to the neuropsych's obvious lack of expertise in testing gifted children. The discrepancy with prior testing is no mystery, regardless of the accuracy of those prior results.
I believe the same thing, lucounu, but I'm wondering if there is a way to file a complaint or protest with the insurance to request a second opinion since we can't afford right now to pay for testing on our own.
Perhaps, but he wouldn't be able to take the same test again. Do you think that the SB would play to his strengths such that you could try that one if insurance would be willing to pay for a retest?
FWIW, I do believe that the RIAS is the only IQ test with which I am familiar that flat out tells the tester
not to figure a FSIQ at all if there is huge score discrepancy. The WISC tells you that you should use caution in interpreting results, but not to avoid figuring the FSIQ all together. Both of my kids had huge spreads and still had GAIs and FSIQs figured despite scores that varied from 8-19 within one index or PRI and VCI indices that were hugely apart from one another.
Unfortunately, people who are likely to be using the results for figuring out your child's needs often don't know enough to realize what they are looking at when the scores come in wacky like that.
