Let me tell you what the Block Design tests
In this subtest, a child is presented with a picture of a flat red-white design. He is to make this design out of blocks by putting together red-white blocks. The designs to make get progressively harder.
This subtest tests the ability to analyze a whole into its component parts since in order to recreate a given whole design out of individual components (blocks/squares), a child has to mentally correctly segment (cut up) the given whole design.
This subtest is very sensitive to any kind of brain damage/neurological dysfunction (I did abysmally on it as I have cerebral palsy brain damage). A child has to get that what he is actually expected to do is to mentally cut up the given picture (otherwise the task seems completely impossible and overwhelming) and once he gets it, he has to cut it up correctly and keep it all in his head. Somewhat lower performance on this subtest is in no way indicative of an organic brain problem, however, the converse (if you have an organic brain-based problem, you'll do below the 50th%ile on it) is almost always true.
I believe you did not list his Processing Speed subscores (Coding and Symbol Search) while you listed the PSI composite score. It's totally unimportant and you should never post anything you don't want on this forum, but I'll be honest, ever since getting a neuropsych. testing myself (for LD) at age 20, I became a score junkie.
P.S. I am a 25 year old girl, not gifted, and don't have any kids. I just like reading this forum.
Last edited by asiral; 01/30/10 09:40 PM.
