the testers say in their reports that his true IQ is hard to summarize due to large subtest scatter.
leahchris, I'm sorry to hear that your dgs is struggling with anxiety related to school. We don't have experience with Aspergers, so I can't give you direct advice there, but fwiw, both large subtest scatter and anxiety over school can be red flags for LDs.... so jmo, but I'd be hesitant to homeschool until I felt confident that I understood what the subtest scatter meant in terms of impact on academics. It's possible that anxiety or testing conditions or Aspergers traits are driving the scatter and that the scatter isn't real and the IQ test isn't an accurate representation of your dgs' abilities.. or there's a possibility that the scatter is related to significant differences in strengths vs challenges... and that *could* potentially be driving the anxiety he's experiencing.
My ds has LDs that weren't diagnosed until 2nd grade because no one recognized them as LDs. What we saw instead was a child that everyone knew was extremely bright because of what he was able to verbalize when he was calm. At school he was becoming completely non-compliant and appeared to be spacing out all the time. At home he was refusing to do homework and having huge meltdowns. Eventually his anxiety built up to the point he was having panic attacks, first at school and then at home. Through *all* of that he was still able to get good grades on everything he actually did and turned in during the day at school. The academics in his classroom appeared to be very far behind where his abilities were, so we (parents) thought a lot of what was going on re behavioral issues and anxiety was either boredom or perfectionism. It wasn't until we sought out help for the anxiety from our ped that we were referred to a neuropsych and found out that he had significant subtest scatter in his IQ profile, and that the scatter was significant in terms of how he was able to process academics.
I realize that's a bit off tangent from the question posed in your post, but in our situation we (parents) felt that the problem was school/teacher until we had testing and realized our ds had LDs. If we'd made the decision to homeschool at that point, we might not have discovered and consequently understood what was driving the behaviors at school, he would have come back home where schooling *might* have worked for awhile, but eventually ds would have to go back out into the world and he would still have his very real LDs. In the meantime, he might have missed several years of very valuable therapies, learning how to accommodate, and remediation that have helped him tremendously. That may or may not be the case with your gds, but if you haven't received it, I'd ask for info on the subtest scatter and the impressions of the person who did the testing re whether or not the scatter is due to anxiety or real differences in abilities. If the testing was through the school, you might not get the same amount of insight and explanation from the tester that you would from a private neuropsych, but you should at the very least be able to get the actual subtest scores and a description of your ds' behavior during the testing and an impression of whether or not that impacted his scores.
Best wishes,
polarbear
