I need some input on behalf of my dd9 if anyone has any. She has been tested twice on the WISC - once at 7.5 and once at 8.5. She will be 10 at the end of Sept. and a 5th grader. After much work with her district, she has a GT language arts id although I don't really believe that to be her stronger area innately.
The first time on the WISC her VCI score was 142 (99.7th percentile) and the second time 136 (99th percentile). I double checked the scaled scores and they were 18, 18, 15 on the first testing and the second time they were 19, 17 and 12. She also took the WIAT and GORT (Gray's oral reading test) at the same time as the second WISC administration. Her reading comprehension composite was at the 95th and writing at the 99th on the WIAT and, she was at the 98th or 99th for reading on the GORT (I think 98th). Math was also 98th on the WIAT, but I am leaving out high PRI and other things that are not as applicable to reading here.
She apparently reads somewhat above grade level but really doesn't enjoy reading. She has always had some degree of lacking fluency in her reading and it frustrates her. When she was younger, she frequently missed easy words like "for" substituting "from," for instance while reading words like "peculiar" correctly. That seems to have gone away as she's gotten older. The halting lack of fluency remains to some extent, though.
On the GORT, her comprehension was in the top quartile (4th) while her speed was in the bottom quartile (1st). She is telling me that she thinks that she would enjoy reading more if it wasn't so hard and if she could read better.
We've been repeatedly assured by psychs who have tested her that there is no way that she is dyslexic. Dh also reads rather slowly so I don't know if there is some genetic component. Other than assuring her that she needs to read more and giving her tips on letting her eyes move fluidly over the page aiming to grasp the main ideas rather than see the exact meaning of every word as she goes along, I don't know what else to tell her.
Is it possible for a child with rather high verbal IQ scores to be fairly average in terms of her reading achievement and to not like reading?
Last edited by Cricket2; 07/03/10 05:58 PM.
