I know... (sigh). Same here. (Kind of).
Our pediatrician warned us against testing both kids, saying that their behavioural issues (attention & anxiety) would interfere with the accuracy of the test scores, but we disregarded her advice and had DS8 (then 7) tested.
The psychologist was unable to calculate his IQ, because the difference between his high and low scores was "consistent with only 7% of the population, and such that an overall score could not be calculated" ...meanwhile she diagnosed him with ADHD combined type and Expressive and Receptive Language Disorder, with "solidly average" cognitive skills.
Meanwhile, she said that he cooperated for about :45 out of each 2 hour session (there were three in total). His academic skills were "age and grade appropriate" even though he tests in the 0.5th percentile for receptive language and the 12th for expressive, and he's in language immersion in school (so he's not even learning English, yet he reads it as well as kids who are learning it in school and who do not have language processing disorders). ...and yet his cognition is "average."
With a score of 0.5th percentile for receptive processing, how is it that he can even communicate at all, let alone read and write in two languages? But whatever... he's "average." I know he's not at Wolf's level, but he's definitely not just average, either.
Btw - I don't doubt the processing scores: His speech is very odd. He mispronounces words, forgets vocabulary, confuses one word for another, etc. His speech is consistent with the language processing disorder. I even doubt the ADHD diagnosis (as does the pediatrician), but I don't doubt the language diagnosis.
Meanwhile at home he reads above grade level (2-3 grades above) material and does above grade level math (for fun! he asks me to give him math to do). He was the first kid in his grade who could play chess (he was 6) and was praised by a math camp instructor as having an "excellent, strategic math mind." As far as genetics go, I (his mom) was in Mensa (IQ 153) and his sister is in the school's gifted math program. I could go on and on, but you get the drift. Bottom line - my DS's test results don't match him either.
Our psychologist has experience with gifted kids, but not 2e. She told us to take his results with a grain of salt and that they "do not represent DS's full potential."
Excellent. There goes our one time ("per lifetime per child") partial coverage + $500. Yippee.
No, Wyldkat, you're not over-estimating Wolf's ability - you know your child. Sometimes test results just don't reflect what is actually going on.
Last edited by CCN; 07/12/12 06:12 PM.
