Irena thank you for sharing your experience, we are also doing private evaluations, hopefully we will make some progress that way. I�m so happy to hear that the two outside evals you did made a difference. How did the evaluators determine writing grade level? Were there particular tests?
The evaluations to which I referred were evaluations done by occupational therapists. They did not give me grade levels, they gave me age-levels. According to the evals, at 5 years old, DS had the writing and fine motor skills of a 3 year old. At 6, his evals came back as 4 year old, at 7 I believe his age equivalent was 4.8. He also did a few Bender Gestalt tests and a few Berry Visual Motor test - they gave percentiles, and if I remember correctly age norms, and he was consistently deplorably low on those as well - no matter how much therapy he gets. He came back grade level for some writing tests the school psych gave, *of course*
(said sarcastically).
