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Hi! Brief recap, DS turned 7 in April, 1st grade. We requested testing in December. KBIT was 142 so he qualified for further evaluation. WISC FSIQ 119, GAI 129
Index Composite Score Percentile Rank Descriptive Category
Verbal Comprehension 114 82 High Average range
Perceptual Reasoning 135 99 Very Superior range
Working Memory 99 47 Average range
Processing Speed 100 50 Average range
Full Scale IQ 119 90 High Average range
(verbal and visual processing high, WM and PSI much lower). District was going to leave it at that, we requested further testing. Was originally denied, then the district finally gave in. Just got WIAT results - all we were given is listed below.

Test Standard Score Percentile Rank Descriptor
READING
Word Reading 121 92 Above Average
Reading Comp 130 98 Above Average/Superior
WRITTEN EXPRESSION
Sentence Composition 127 96 Above Average
Sentence Combining 119 90 Above Average
Sentence Building 126 96 Above Average
MATHEMATICS
Math Problem Solving 105 63 Average
Numerical Operations 123 94 Above Average

So will this help our cause to get him identified and hopefully receive some more challenging work, or hurt it? DS has issues retelling after reading so not advancing in reading groups because of it. Doesn't like to answer questions if he doesn't know the answer immediately, hates writing, and the writing sample they used for the report was from September... He earned a 122/160 on a district-developed parent rating scale, for what that's worth.

Also, he was just diagnosed with Tourette's last week, and the school doesn't have knowledge of that diagnosis yet. It's pretty mild and seems to be much more prevalent at home (have asked teacher to watch for tics and she sees them occasionally, but never the verbal component).

Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated. No placement recommendations were included in the report because they said we would discuss that at the meeting...