no5no5
We did WPPSI at 4.5 for DS 5 and SB V at 4.9. We did the first to grapple with our understanding and to decide if we should put him through the testing for gifted programs. The WPPSI is a problem if your kid has speed or fine motor issues - we did not know this prior to testing - so for us the WPPSI test results were really useful to determine that yes his verbal skills are are crazy high as we thought - and differential with the performance category led us to focus on improving his fine motor which we wouldn't have done without the pysch pointing out how frustrated this was making him. But for sheer knowledge of him its hard to tell based on WPPSI as he did ceiling in several of the verbal categories and he was so dang slow in the ones he did badly in. Unfortunately we can't really compare to the SB V because he got an ear infection and fever essentially right in the middle of it. The pysch was so frustrated as he would get really really tough ones right and then bail on easy ones, there was no rhyme or reason to his answers due to illness. Although the bias of verbal over block design was still there but since he was so sick the data isn't very valuable.
I don't think the test results will necessarily help with homeschooling, if you want numbers or comparative data I would think that achievement type tests would help better. I plan to get DS tested in WISC and WJ once 6 but that would be entirely for DYS.
So short answer I did get "objective" confirmation from doing WPPSI which made me feel better and that it wasn't all my perception, but the most significant or useful thing it revealed was that we needed to stop letting him avoid doing things he wasn't good at! And the data made me comfortable enough to post here the first time, without it, I lurked, unsure if we really belonged! But that's about me, not him.
DeHe
