Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Identification, Testing & Assessment Can WISC results be incorrect?

I've posted about this before so I won't go into too much detail, but my son bombed the WISC... his scores were awful (average to well below).

Our pediatrician warned against testing both kids because of behavioural issues (anxiety and attention). Turns out DS has ADHD and a language processing disorder which interfered with the results.

I'm HG, and both kids show all the signs (early milestones, behaviours, etc).

Our psychologist was perplexed at DS's results. "Take this with a grain of salt - it isn't right" and "medicate his ADHD and test him again in two years." She wrote right in the report that the scores were inaccurate: "due to his difficulties with language and sustained attention the results are not reflective of DS's true cognitive potential."

Anyway, test scores can definitely be wrong.