So these are my thoughts:
His verbal recall memory is about average, while his visual recall memory is above average, but he appears to do better on recognition memory when the stimulus is meaningful, and in context. Notice the difference between story recognition and verbal learning recognition. His immediate and delayed recall are comparable on those two verbal tasks, but his recognition is quite different. Similarly, his immediate recall of visual images, in design and pictures, is strong for both areas, but recognition is markedly better with meaningful images (pictures) than with non-meaningful designs.
In the attention/concentration area, Number Letter is a verbal task, similar to digit span on the WISC-IV. Finger Windows (I assume that's what Sequences is) is a visual-spatial working memory task. Can you double check the index and subtest scores for Attention/Concentration? They don't make sense together.
Your anecdotal observations of him fit with this. Repetitive, rote tasks are not meaningful, and do not engage his memory and learning processes as well as tasks with a meaningful narrative thread and a contextual basis. He appears to respond well to meaningful cues, which allow him to "fish out" additional information from his memory, beyond what he can generate on his own. I would imagine that he does well when he can make connections between skills and concepts, but not so much when factoids or skills are learned in isolation. (read: personally irrelevant)
Last edited by aeh; 05/29/14 08:12 AM.
