Hi suevv,

I don't have any info on a table for the WISC, but wonder if you could ask for the info from the person that tested your ds? I did get that type of info with the WJ-III Cognitive Abilities test.

FWIW, arguing where our ds was at in terms of IQ/ability was never really very effective - teachers eyes just tended to glaze over. I think the difficulty with advocating re IQ is that it's not a test that the teachers see frequently, but they do (particularly in early elementary) hear from a lot of parents who perceive their child is able to work ahead of grade level or the class or whatever - and there actually are probably a good portion of the kids in any given elementary classroom who are capable of working ahead simply because it seems that most elementary classrooms these days (at least in my school district) are aiming solidly to the middle and attempting to pull up the lower end of achievers. SOooo…. for those reasons actual IQ scores weren't all that helpful. I did however, point out where scores fell on the Bell Curve, so the teachers could get some sense of how rare those scores are - and relate that to how many children were in ds' grade at the school.

What worked better for us in advocating was achievement scores and work samples - from both "e" perspectives. I totally understand what your ds' achievement scores on a test like the WJ-III etc probably look like - I'm guessing there's scatter and nothing that looks amazingly out-of-the-ball-park in terms of academic ability. They aren't going to be a good reflection of his intellectual ability, but if you separate out and group them by question type (oral vs reading) and response type (oral vs handwriting) and timed vs untimed, they may show a good data pattern that illustrates how his dyslexia/dysgraphia is impacting his ability to *show* his knowledge.

Once our ds had accommodations for testing (in the classroom and state/standardized testing), those achievement scores lined up nicely with what you'd expect given his IQ numbers. So you might not have achievement scores that are easy to advocate with for gifted services at the moment, but I'm guessing that you will have those in a few years after you've tackled remediation and accommodations.

Sorry I wandered off a bit from your question - good luck with your meeting!

polarbear