I got a call from the guidance counselor at my son's Montessori school. She is actually a licensed school psychologist (LSP). We are having a hard time determining appropriate academic levels in different academic subjects for my son because of his reluctance to complete assignments that are too easy and too hard. The way he put it to me is, "sometimes they're hard BECAUSE they're too easy."
Would achievement testing provide this information for us? We don't really want general grade-level placement tests (if there is such a thing) because he's definitely not on the same level across subjects. I wasn't planning to do any testing anytime soon, but if this would give us the info we/they need, it might be worth it. She also suggested having new gifted testing done to see if ds gets similar scores now that he is medicated. She suggested that with new testing he might not have such a discrepancy between verbal and nonverbal scores now that he is 2 1/2 years older and on ADHD medication. She also recommended doing a different test than the SB-5 since that is the one we did before.
Any thoughts? How can we find out where to begin teaching him? He says every day, he sits and does work he already knows. The school seems to be very willing to help ds. They are willing to accelerate the pace of instruction as well as allow ds to skip lessons if he can show proficiency in some way. I think they just need a starting point and suggestions for how to go about doing this.
I'd appreciate any advice you have to offer.
