Clearly, her sustained attention/inhibition is quite impaired when it's attention for attention's sake, and exceptionally strong when there is some cognitive challenge added. This is an unusually pronounced example of the low DSF/high DSB profile that one often sees on the WISC-IV for this type of child.
Wow! will you update when you know what that test is called? BTW, I am like you and cannot listen and take notes simultaneously. But can listen and attend well to interesting things like your DD.
Are you saying that the ADHD is a new diagnosis, and ASD is ruled out?
aeh--what do DSF and DSB stand for?
Sorry, eco, jargoning again!
DSF-Digit Span Forward
DSB-Digit Span Backward
It's the two mini-tasks that make up the Digit Span subtest on the WISC-IV. On the WISC-V and WAIS-IV, there are three mini-tasks in Digit Span:
DSF
DSB
DSS-Digit Span Sequencing
More or less in order of increasing accessibility to compensation with higher-level cognition.
Evaluators don't always report the process scores, often because they don't add any information (such as when they are not significantly different from each other), but sometimes just because.
