It's time for my son's triennial IEP eval process. So the school psych chose to use the DAS-II for my son and declared him to have "average" cognitive abilities (106 SS) based on her results. In passing she mentions this is lower than previous testing but similar to tests from 1st grade. As in 27 points lower than his WISC IV results (GAI 133 SS).
I'm trying to make sense of the change in my son's test results. I don't think the newest results are correct. If they are then it seems to me to have warranted something more than a passing comment from the school Psych. As in a strong recommendation for a neurology eval!
My son is in special ed because he has a Rt. unilateral hearing loss and was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease when he was 10.
So at CA 7-4 my son was given the WISC III; at 10-3 the WISC IV and at 13-3 the DAS II. Here are the results for each test.
WISC III CA 7-4
VSIQ 105
PSIQ 112
FSIQ 109
VCI 113
POI 110
FDI 78
Information 13 Pict Completion 11
Similarities 13 Coding 13
Arithmetic 5 Object Assembly 14
Vocabulary 13 Pict Arrangement 8
Comprehension 10 Block Design 13
Digit Span 7
WISC IV CA 10-3
VC 134
PR 123
WM 91
PS 88
GAI 133
Similarities* 16 Matrix Reasoning* 12
Vocabulary 18 Digit Span 7
Comprehension 13 Letter-Number Seq 10
Block Design* 14 Coding 8
Picture Concepts* 1 Symbol Search 8
*according to report child hit the ceiling on these 4 subtests
DAS II CA 13-3
General Conceptual Ability 106 SS
Composite Scores
Verbal 101 SS 53%
Nonverbal Reasoning 100 SS 50%
Spatial 120 SS 87%
Subtest t-scores (Mean 50 SD 10)
Recall of Designs 65 Matrices 51
Word Definitions 56 Similarities 45
Pattern Construction 55 Sequent & Quant Reasoning 49
Thanks for any input.
Patricia
