I'm so glad I found this forum. We had our son (4.3) tested this summer and got results that we know aren't accurate. He was recently diagnosed with a chronic disease and has been very sick. But, we went ahead with the testing because life goes on. His preschool teacher and I needed some guidance. With his health problems, we're trying especially hard to avoid school problems. What we got were inaccurate scores and no guidance from the child psychologist. Now what? What do we do with these scores? Any advise?
The child psych we went to said that the ceiling for the WPPSI-III is 130 and if we see anything higher on-line, not to compare. Also, he told us that it's a good thing that our son has this chronic disease because he can just concentrate on that and never have to worry about school. GRRRRRR!!!!! I don't think so! My son loves to learn and should be concentrating on that rather than growing up feeling sorry for himself because of his disease.
One last thing...the person giving the test told me that ds kept putting his head down because he was tired and even got on the floor at one point to lay down. After talking to the psychologist about it later, I wonder if ds was just bored with the whole thing.
Here are the scores:
WPPSI-III
Verbal 133
Performance 131
Processing Speed 94
Full-Scale 129
WJ-III
Letter-Word Ident. 172
Passage Comp. 148
Spelling 113 (This one is completely inaccurate. He's a spelling whiz! I would have expected this score to be as high as letter-word ident.)
Any thoughts or suggestions?
