I've been reading here for about a year but another user I know from another board suggested that I ask here for some clarification on DS's testing results. As a "no he does not have ADD" paperwork trail, we had him tested at 5 years, 4 months. Our pediatrician believed that he would probably qualify for Davidsons (he's a PG guy himself!)and suggested testing instead of an ADD eval. Our tester only works with gifted children and gave him the SB-5. She intended to give him the WISC but didn't remember that he wasn't 6 so she switched at the last minute.
We received subtest scores that look like this:
Nonverbal-
Fluid reasoning- 16
Knowledge - 16
Quantitative- 17
Visual-spatial processing- 14
Working memory- 15
Verbal-
Fluid reasoning- 19
Knowledge- 17
Quantitative- 14
Visual-spatial- 14
Working memory- 17
FSIQ- 139
I also have individual scaled scores for the categories. I'm most concerned with a Fluid reasoning score of 144 with a Visual-Spatial score of 123. That seems like a large spread, especially since it looks like he hit the ceiling on the verbal part of the fluid reasoning section?
We were surprised that his visual-spatial score was his lowest, as he is easily able to do challenging mazes, put together any lego kit you hand him, remember a map from a video game and navigate without returning to it, build crazy art out of junk and more. His tester said that it was more an issue of exposure to certain ideas but didn't give us much on specifics.
So my questions, after that long rambling post!
What kinds of exposure is she talking about? Should we be concerned over such a large gap or is this normal? Would it be beneficial to test again later to see if his visual-spatial exposure has improved? What is fluid reasoning anyway?
TIA!
