Hello, just looking for insight into test of 11 year old DD in 6th grade.
Short backround - STRENGTHS - creative mind and imagination. Excels at drawing anime characters - scary good. Interests include science fiction/fantasy such as "Dr. Who", "Lord of the Rings" and of course anime. WEAKNESSES - poor social skills (increased by not having common interests as average girls in class), does not handle constuctive criticism well. Sensitive to loud talking (covers ears and tells me to "stop yelling" when in fact I am speaking in normal tone (mostly during homework).
Medically suffering from general anxiety disorder, and probably OCD. Currently being home tutored by district as she was was unable to go to school starting in February. (non-functioning and almost hospitalized). Things are better as she is now on Zoloft and Inositol powder (over the counter). Anyway, my district asked that she tested for special education to rule out anything. Thank goodness for medication to even get DD out of the house to get to the testing site!!
WISC-IV:
VCI 112 - 79% - High-Average
PRI 129 - 97% - superior
WMI 104 - 61% - Average
PSI 112 - 79% - High Average
FSIQ 120 - 91% - Superior
Subtests:
VCI
Similarities: 15
Vocabulary: 13
Comprehension: 9
PRI:
Block Design: 15
Picture Concepts: 14
Matrix resoning: 15
WMI:
Digit Span: 12
Letter-Number: 10
PSI:
coding: 10
Symbol Search: 14
My first question is this. Tester noted that DD had to be redirected and refocused several times during the test. Tester also said DD did not understand the first (Similarities) subtest and gave one word answers at first, but still fell into the superior range in that subtest. (would it have been higher if she would have understood from the beginning)?
Home tutor also notes that DD gets off topic (for instance, being tutored on the Earth and crust in science, DD goes off and gives tutor a whole schpeel on the planted Pluto and why/why not she things about the whole discussion of whether it should be a planet or not.
DD also took the WIAT, but don't have the results of that yet. Only thing tester told me was that DD answered questions at much higher grade and age equivalent. Especially math, as that was 12th grade. I think that was the highest.
Her Psychologist is doing some 45 minute computer test on his own this Friday as he is suspicious of ADD. (I didn't think to ask what name of that test was). Second question: Does anyone have a clue as to what this test might be called?
I have the Special education Committee meeting a week from today, and don't know what to ask, or what to expect.
Third question: Can anyone tell by just these results so far, is there any underlying learning disability or other concerns?
*******ADDITIONAL SCORES ADDED**5/9/13*******************
I just got the WIAT scores. This is all the information on the paperwork: Standard Scores and percentile rank:
WIAT-III
130 - 98% - Reading Comprehension
116 - 86% - Math problem Solving
128 - 97% - sentence Composition
119 - 90% - Word Reading
112 - 79% - Pseudoword Decoding
107 - 68% - Numerical Operations
125 - 95% - Spelling
I wish I had raw scores (or whatever you call it), but just got results in mail this morning, and the special education meeting is Monday morning.
Do these seem in line with her WISC-IV score above? Any discrepancies or concerns?
Last edited by jojosmom; 05/09/13 06:25 AM. Reason: Additional Scores
