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I have test results for a kid that leave me just about as confused as I was before we did the testing, because the things that the neuropsych told me should be correlated just don't seem to be.

E.g., WISC: working memory: 42 %ile, Processing speed: 99.3 %ile
WRAML-2: Story memory recognition: 95 %ile, Verbal memory recognition: 9 %ile (yes, single digit 9)
WRAML-2: Story memory: 95 %ile, Picture memory: 16 %ile
ELLA: Phonemic awareness/processing: 6 %ile, Random automatic naming: I haven't gotten a %ile score yet, but she did it in roughly half the "typical" time, so I'd wager pretty good %ile ranking.

We initially sought evaluation for concerns over reading struggles and possible affective mood disorders. The evaluator commented in the report that the child's anxiety was palpable and the affect was "mildly dysphoric," so I'm almost certain they underperformed overall - but not enough that I can make sense of these discrepancies.

I guess I'm just trying to figure out how to understand this child and serve them better, in light of their reading and mood struggles. There has been concern over ADHD as well, and brother is ASD-2, but we haven't pursued further testing yet. I will confess that I was relatively surprised by the WISC scores. While I had nothing concrete to base this on, but I've always had a "gut" feeling that this child is considerably brighter than my older child, who had a FSIQ in the solid mid 130s (though also containing a range from 50-99%ile in scores, the few scores <80 %ile were clearly outliers in that case, in contrast with my younger child, whose report is characterized by these vast discrepancies). I'm not concerned that the results weren't what I expected them to be - I'm more concerned about figuring out what this means, since the professionals I've spoken with thus far have indicated that this is a fairly unusual profile, and have not offered me much of an explanation regarding what it actually means.

Thank you very much!

ETA: For what it's worth, she is homeschooled, so I have considerable latitude in changing things up in order to help her better. My main constraints are just my other kids (two younger kids the older ds8 with ASD).