Hi,

I am new here, and have a daughter who is starting middle school. She has had a medical DX of Aspergers, and just recently an educational DX of AS. She also has anxiety/OCD, sensory processing difficulties and fine motor delays. We are meeting with the school in August to discuss the results of her testing and we have some concerns that were not addressed in the FIE.

Academically, she has always mastered things easily with the exception of handwriting. She has been recieving accommodations for writting for the last few years under a 504, but will be moving to an IEP for middle school She also stuggles to recall multiplication facts quickly and any timed math test or worksheet is a nightmare. On our state assement in math she scored a 54%, but when they gave it to her again, without the pressure of time she only missed one.

She always has A's with an occasional B in math. She was nominated for the GT progam every year and all of her teachers felt she was gifted, but she did not get in until 5th grade. In 4th grade the GT teacher said she had never had a student be nominated that many times and not make it in. Her tests from year to year were inconsistent, for example one year she would test in the 97% for NNAT and the next year 72%. One year, 92% for SAGES-2 reasoning, and 42% the next. Cogat showed similar irregularities with scores of 55%, 89% and 96%. Once she scored a 42% on the GT reading, yet she is classified as hyperlexic (she was reading independently by age 3 and read copious amounts per week.

She was tested at the end of this year for the GT English and GT math. Since she was admitted to GT English, I did not get those scores (they only give scores if you didn't get in). For math she scored:
96% for COGAT/OLSAT
93% NNAT
96% for ITBS Math Achievment
District Problem solving test - 1 (scale of 1-4;4 being high)
Commended TAKS Math: No (but she was very close)
Math Grade average: 89 percent.

Since she did not get into GT math, they put her in AP math. My understanding is they both follow the same content, but AP has more repetition i.e. homework). Homework is a big problem for her, since she arrives home exhausted, and something that should take 10 minutes can take hours. GT also uses science as a base to teach math - science is her best subject; she only missed one on the state assessment.

We requested the FIE in the spring of 5th grade and we recieved the results of the testing, by mail this summer; we are meeting with them in August to review and I would like to have a strong understanding of what they mean before I go in. She qualified for an IEP with services in pragmatic speech for the AS, but they didn't bring up the extreme scatter in her scores on the WISC. I'm also suprised her Achievement tests were average - does this mean she should not be in the gifted English or AP math?

Our educational advocate is concerned about a possible LD in math that was not addressed in the report as well as the significant anxiety and depression on the BASC scores. I'm concerned the WISC points out possible viusal processing issues and/or fine motor problems. I would appreciate any insight or information and apologize for the long post.

WISC IV:

VCI: 121/90
Similarities: 16/98
Vocabulary: 14/91
Comprehension: 11/63

PRI 108/70
Block design 6/9
Picture concepts 12/75
Matrix reasoning 16/98

WMI 102/55[b][/b]
Digit Span 11/63
Letter Number Sequencing 10/50

PSI 88/21
coding 4/2
symbol search 12/75


Woodcock Johnson III

[b]Basic reading: 102/average
word attack: 100/average
letter word identification 103/average
Reading Fluency 118/above average

Reading Comprehension 112/average
passage comprehension 101/average
reading vocabulary 119/above average

Math Calculation Skills 96/Average
calculation 108/Average
math fluency 77 below average

Math Reasoning 109/average
Applied Problems 107 average
Quantitative Concepts 109/average

Written Expression 104/average
Writing Fluency 114/average
Writting samples 93/average