We are having some further testing done for my younger dd (not the one mentioned in the lexile thread). She is a very erratic kid at school with achievement scores in reading and math on MAPs tests that range from average to the 90s (percentiles) every few months. Her CogAT indicates that she is a high average kid (80s percentile wise), but the WISC-IV given last year puts her GAI (includes perceptual reasoning and verbal subtests) at the 99.9th percentile. Even including the working memory and processing speed subtests, which were much lower, she is still gifted (around 99th percentile). Her school has been disinclined to believe the higher tests scores calling them a result of good guessing.
The psych who will be testing her is going to readminister the WISC (more than a year out) as well as the WIAT and GORT(achievement), and social emotional rating scales to look for anxiety or other issues that may be standing in her way at school.
She is also going to do a second IQ test. I had requested the SB-5. She is leaning toward the RIAS b/c it is much shorter (like 20 minutes) and she feels that it may be better since dd may be burned out from all of this testing. We are breaking it into three days. She also feels that the RIAS is good at looking at visual and visual spatial memory which we feel are stronger points for dd than auditory memory (which is what the WISC tests).
My hesistancy with the RIAS is that I understand that is has short discontinue guidelines (you miss two questions, and that's the end of that segmenent) and it isn't something that I see as being accepted by DYS if, for some reason, dd is actually as able as her original WISC indicated. If she is DYS eligible, I'd like to be able to apply w/out further testing. Of course, the WISC may qualify her, but I don't know if they take GAI. Her highest score btwn the verbal and perceptual subtests was 99.7th (142)the first time she took the WISC, so those scores alone won't quite make it.
Any input? Dh wants to defer to what the psych believes is best.
