Very sound advice from everyone!
That said, now that more of the testing results have come in and we've had a couple of days to ruminate on things, I have more questions now than I did when going in.
Got another email from the examiner yesterday - while language-based tasks seemed to be more difficult for my daughter, her VCI was very close to her PRI - the PRI, I think had more scatter than her VCI. Her VCI came out to 121 and her PRI was 125 - I was sure, going in, that her scores would be higher, but they were not. FSIQ was 118 and GAI was 127. If our school had gifted programming, none of these would get her in at all! So, now we await to see what the examiner recommends. It seems to be that while my dd is a bright kid, we are not going to get the full picture of her from testing. She's a deep kid, but we may never know how deep unless she's willing to open up.
So, now what does a school do with a kid with an ability to read at 8th grade level (from her lexile score), has low-average processing speed (in real-world stuff, it's probably even slower than what her PSI suggests), and is a very private/perfectionistic child? How does a teacher work with that and how does a parent advocate for a such a child?
Last edited by Mombot; 09/01/08 09:06 AM.
