Thank you all for your thoughtful responses.
@aeh, I'm not sure that I can get the results. My school psychologist is now officially out of town until April 4, but she wrote me this:
"For your information, when testing for TAG identification, we administer only the 7 subtests needed to obtain a Full Scale score. That means that we do not have composite scores for several areas. "
The only results I currently have are the full scale results:
standard score - 123
percentile -94
95% conf. interval - 116-128
I will try to get the subtest scores from somebody else.
@portia, thank you for your feedback. That makes so much sense. I'm worried that I won't be able to find a nueropsych that specializes in both, but that sounds like the way to go. If I was wealthy, I would send her to a nueropsych and then send her to a private school that deals with these kind of learners if I had to. Unfortunately, we don't have that kind of money.
@ploarbear, thanks for your thorough post. This is very helpful. Knowing the step by steps will definitely help me as we walk through the process. I know what you say is true, but arguing my side is not a skill set that I have. It will be tough as I know the district is not going to helpful in the least. sigh.
As for her math, she understands what 12-7 means, although at times, it seems like she forgets! But she has to basically draw a picture of it. For addition, she can count on her fingers and do easier ones in her head like 5+2. I know that she has trouble to determine which operation to use in word problems. She is good at data interpretation. If there is a visual aide, she seems to do much better. With subtracting large numbers, she forgets how to borrow. She's been doing this kind of subtraction for at least a year now.
It sounds like my next step is to find a nueropsych.
@sanne Thanks you for your encouragement. It's nice to hear that your son is successful in math regardless of him not knowing his math facts.
I wouldn't be surprised if my daughter was diagnosed with ADHD. We always thought she had those symptoms when she was younger, but she didn't have trouble sleeping or watching full length movies, so we decided to muddle through the difficulties as we didn't feel good about medicating. I did take her to a pscyhologist a couple of times and she did not recommend meds anyway. But she didn't run any tests on her. Her diagnosis was very subjective so I was skeptical.
