slammie, the WCST was one of the tests that was included in my ds' neuropsych eval (he's diagnosed with dysgraphia and developmental coordination disorder). I looked back to see how he had performed on it, and it's not directly mentioned in the report (as in, the name WCST plus score or comment), but from aeh's description and reading through the report, I think that ds' performance on it was a relative weakness.
I would wonder if this is a working memory deficit (often a primary deficit in dysgraphia
aeh, this is interesting - are working memory deficits sometimes associated with dysgraphia? DS' working memory scores on his first WISC were not as low as his processing speed scores, but they were definitely lower than his other scores (I can't remember how much lower at the moment, but it was greater than 2 SD, and low enough that I remember being concerned about it but his neuropsych wasn't... possibly because he had much more obvious challenges to be concerned about!). His wm scores improved when he had a WISC at 11, but homework and studies seem to take him *forever* compared to other high school students we know... even though he's using accommodations for his dysgraphia. So I wonder about things like this! Anyway, just curious about this note.
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