Okay, so my son does have separation anxiety that we've been making progress on, but in general he does not appear to be an anxious child. The psychologist who assessed him said she didn't think he had ADHD even though he was zoning out (daydreaming) and needs to move (fidgets in class, and at home he paces etc.) He moves whether he is nervous or happy/excited. His grades are fine, and he reads a lot, likes math etc. but not begging for acceleration. He doesn't appear scattered and can focus, and after really observing and talking to DS I think zoning out is from boredom and the pacing is psychomotor excitability.
However according to his test he has very low processing speed (21st percentile), and the psychologist said it was a combination of perfectionism and anxiety- if we fix the anxiety she said his PS would likely increase. She recommended keeping everything calm in the household, working on the separation issues and otherwise building his confidence. To me though, he doesn't seem anxious or insecure as long as he's not alone. When kids were picking on him at school last year he says he just got angry, he wasn't nervous or scared. In general he said he was just bored. Anyway, just wondering if anyone else has any thoughts on his scores?
If the processing speed wasn't so low, I would just shelve it, but I don't know if it indicates a 2e situation that I would need to address...for instance I don't think he has dyslexia as he loves to read, but my brother had undiagnosed dyslexia and he suffered from it so I just want to rule out anything else to make sure I'm not missing something.
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Anyway, I'm just not sure what's going on. I know that's it's just an IQ test, but something just doesn't makes sense to me yet. There is anxiety going on but it doesn't appear to affect him unless he's alone and he's never alone at school and he wasn't alone during the test. If he just has slow processing that is fine but if there is anything else I should be looking at, please let me know.
Thanks again for your help, and I am grateful for the support and these forums.
Last edited by LAF; 04/12/16 03:05 PM.
