So we had our first evaluation session for DS4, and overall it went really well. BUT there were definitely a couple places where he just refused to cooperate. Namely, the "say as many of this particular kind of thing...aka animals or whatever.) He just pretty much refused. He was like "I don't want to do this", and had a mini-meltdown. I had to come in and we had hugs and a little talk and things got much better, and he was very into it by the end. But my question is...how badly will something like that skew/mess up the scoring?
In the same regard, the other thing I noticed was there were definitely a few questions throughout where he was being careless and not taking as much time as he needed to before choosing an answer, you know, being kind of lazy about it. Afterward the session, I had a little discussion with him about how he needs to try and take his time and do the best he can, since we have the second session in a couple weeks. I tried to phrase everything in a way that would hopefully stick, but not make him nervous or feel pressured, because that's the last thing we want - we would like him to just have fun with it...yet still get accurate-ish results, you know what I mean? Hopefully that will help. But I'm rambling now. Essentially, I am just nervous about the lack of cooperation really throwing things off. It's kind of gotten in my head and is making me crazy (even though the tester very obviously knew what was going on, so I'm sure there would be something in the report to signify what went down.)
I don't know, I'm probably being overly neurotic about this. Any thoughts, words of wisdom, or calm-inducing vibes would be great.
