Looking over the subtests, the tester thought that my son has stealth dyslexia and we are in the process of getting auditory and vision exams to determine if he has auditory processing and vision processing problems which would be the reason for the dyslexia. Our tester said that block design was difficult for my son because he likely couldn't see or process things well enough to complete the tasks correctly.
This is so interesting to me! Because my son also could not do the block design! I watched the testing and he kept inverting the designs and just could not do it (and yet still scored 125). He even asked to look at it from a different angle (which they wouldn't let him do). They had to stop the test and give him a substitute test. When I watched his attempting the block design test that's when I got all worked up over a visual processing problem or dyslexia or something along those lines... The psych (who was quite frankly a moron) said "oh it's just that he's too rigid in this thinking."
. But I did take him to for a developmental vision eval anyway and found that he does have convergence issues (basically intermittently crossing eyes). He's getting VT and now I am looking into dyslexia b/c he seems to have many of the signs! I was always convinced that the block design test was indicative of either some sort of dyslexia or visual processing issue - how nice that your doc actually said/recognized that! Our psych basically treated me like I was a wacko!
