Today was my sons IQ test that I was rather worried about for the last 2 weeks. It was scheduled for 9am. He got started around 9:15 after I talked to the tester a bit. When I walked out of the room she was showing him the red and white blocks and he appeared interested.
A little later she came out to the waiting room to get me. She said he had been doing well and got all but the last block question right, but that he was hiding under the table and she needed my help. Apparently he was upset because he got one wrong and had tried to throw the book at the tester. I got him out and calmed down and they continued on with a section that had 4 cells and he had to choose what went in the empty one.
Around 9:45 she came back to get me out of the waiting room and said he was done. I thought that seemed pretty fast? He had what appeared to be an achievement test booklet and he was happily doing math questions in it. The tester told me he had had enough and was done with testing. She said he has a lot of potential and all of his K-transition stuff, including her results, will be mailed to me around mid-April.
She said that he didn't cooperate well, he made the sounds of the letters for her, but refused to name the letters. I'm not certain what all he completed. He said there was a test where she asked him to memorize pictures and then find them, but he said he got one wrong on that section and she said he had to do a different section. He didn't talk about it other than that.
So, is it possible that all of the testing could be done in half an hour with an uncooperative kid? Her recommendation is for a special small classroom next year with inclusion for gym, art, and music. She said that if he continues to show signs of dyslexia they would test for that in 3rd grade, when most kids grow out of reversals and such. I asked for the social testing I was promised by our coordinator and she said all it would be is a questionnaire for me to fill out and they would rate it. She said it isn't really useful at this point because we know that he has social challenges.
I guess I just wait and see what the results look like in 2 months? I don't think they did much of any achievement testing, certainly it seemed they didn't ask him to read anything. I thought this kind of testing would go as far as he could go, but it just seemed to be another test of mastery of age level material? If she had paid attention while we talked she would have seen my son fill in an impressive number of the math questions (although he did add when the symbol called for subtraction, but he often needs a reminder to double check).
Oh, and when I asked about dyslexia, she said kids his age aren't expected to read anyway, so they don't test for it. But he is 5 now, I thought most kids read around 5 these days? I worked in a K program a few years ago, and I know that by the end of the year the kids were divided into 4 groups, from the strongest readers at least a grade or 2 ahead to the 3 kids who could not read at all (they were also all ESL). I'm assuming the strong readers were reading around 5 and the others learned as older 5's. So, isn't reading a 5 year old skill?
