My 6 year old son (Severe ADHD-Combined type and ASD Level 2) recently completed a good portion of the WISC-V as part of his neuropsych evaluation. He was unable to complete portions of the subtests due to his inability to attend to the task (he resorted to banging his head and becoming dysregulated, and the evaluator immediately stopped the Picture Span and Coding subtest). While he did complete several different types of tests, I was looking at the WISC-V as many of the other evaluations tested items we already knew he struggled with (working memory, attention span, etc.) It did seem that the WISC-V was the portion that caused the most stress to him.
His scores for the portions that were done:
Verbal Comprehension (VCI)* 118 88 High Average
Visual Spatial (VSI) 105 63 Average
Fluid Reasoning (FRI) 100 50 Average
Working Memory (WMI)** -- -- --
Processing Speed (PSI)** -- -- --
Full Scale IQ (FSIQ)** -- -- --
General Ability Index (GAI) 109 73 Average
Verbal Comprehension
Similarities 17 77 Very Superior
Vocabulary 10 50 Average
Visual Spatial
Block Design 10 50 Average
Visual Puzzles 12 75 High Average
Fluid Reasoning
Matrix Reasoning 11 63 Average
Figure Weights 9 37 Average
Working Memory
Digit Span 9 37 Average
Picture Span*** -- -- --
Processing Speed
Coding*** -- -- --
Symbol Search 12 75 High Average
* Caution should be taken when interpreting the VCI, as a clinically significant discrepancy exists
between (subject's) highest and lowest subtest scores.
** Scores could not be computed, as a sufficient amount of data could not be collected due to noncompliance.
*** Picture Span and Coding were discontinued due to non-compliance. (Self-injurious behavior and emotional/behavioral dysregulation).
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Due to the level of stress he experienced during the testing I am proud of what he was able to accomplish. My concern is that as this evaluation was performed in another state, privately, and without knowledge of the school board, I am now worried that his school will require their own testing and I would hate to have him go through that again.
Based on the results we were able to get, is there any reason that school administration would need to re-administer the testing again? I'm unclear on exactly what specific evaluations the school would require and as it is now summer I don't believe I could get that information. It does seem from what I have read that cognitive testing is generally included. Prior to the neuropsych eval the only testing he had received was the STAR Early Literacy given to all of the kids in his kindergarten class, which I was told he scored "in the 99th percentile". Would those results, as well as the results from his neuropsych WISC-V be enough to gauge his cognitive processes?
