Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Identification, Testing & Assessment Non-verbal IQ 27 points higher than Verbal?

You know I looked at your subtest scores in another thread and your son had 3 verbal subtests that I saw which all had very similar scores: vocabulary, similarities, and comprehension. Looks like he did not do the verbal information subtest.

You mentioned there that your son deals with apraxia which would affect his ability to give verbal responses. My son on the other hand has dysgraphia and (and the vision issues) and performed significantly poorer on non verbal response questions. If he can TELL you, my son performs at superior and above levels.... for your son it looks more like if he can SHOW you... Both of them are constrained by their areas of disability to show their true ability. This is the challenge of being 2e.

ETA: With that 19 and 18 on the PRI, it is acceptable to calculate extended norms for those as they are hitting the ceiling. His score should increase a few points on that section. I do not know if it will be enough but your son is only 4 points away on his PRI from having numbers in the DYS range. It might be worthwhile to have your Psych recalculate with those extended norms.