Hi all,

I could use some guidance here. We got my son's WISC IV scores today and they were really strong (as a caveat - I am travelling and my DH read me the scores and report - so hopefully I have everything straight). There are 13 subtests (is that usual?):

Similarities: 17
Vocab: 18
Comprehension: 13
Information: 17
Block Design: 16
Picture Concepts: 17
Matrix Reason.: 15
Picture Completion: 9
Digit Span: 11
Letter # Sequence: 15
Arithmetic: 19
Coding: 13
Symbol: 13

FSIQ: 136
GAI: 144

So that is all good - although obviously I am concerned about the picture completion with the 9 and the digit span. Do these suggest anything?

But the bigger concern and the thing that has me really upset is that in the report they spent the entire last 2 paragraphs talking about the social skill low score (I take that is the 13 in comprehension - am I correct? - which while low compared to the other stuff is still above average). They suggested that the low score could be due to my parenting (I think they call it over-functioning parenting) and claim that more testing is needed to exclude that as a cause. I think my son is a bit immature, but is there anything else that could cause that sort of a low number, is that a valid assumption? It is disturbing because I have to show this to the school and it seems like it just gives them ammunition to say my son is immature and try to deny a subject acceleration.

Could any of this suggest a mild autism spectrum issue. My son has a lot of friends in his class, and is quite social, but has very low frustration tolerance and as I said, is a bit immature in some ways, but not in others. In addition, when he was tested for OT, his OT found that he has a hard time reading facial expressions - would any of this concern you.

Anyway, what should have been a really nice day from his strong results has turned into making me feel very upset - I have always felt pretty confident about my parenting - and now what.

On a whole other topic - any suggestions on what other testing we might consider. The only other thing we have done is SCAT testing.

Thanks so much for listening. Cat