Hi
I hope its ok to post here. I don't think my son in gifted, however, he has AS and we are currently investigating some visual-motor problems.
It has been a huge battle to get him what little support he has and we are currently trying to get our heads around exactly where his strengths and weaknesses lie and what that means in terms of how we can help him.
He recently had the WISC-IV done by the Ed Psych at school with the following results:
IQ Index Percentile Confidence Interval
Verbal Comprehension 124 95% 116-129
Perceptual Reasoning 102 55% 94-109
Working Memory 113 81% 104-120
Processing Speed 85 16% 78-96
Full Scale IQ 109 73% 104-114
Score
Verbal Comprehension (VCI)
Similarities 14
Vocabulary 16
Comprehension 12
Perceptual Reasoning (PRI)
Block design 8
Picture concepts 11
Matrix reasoning 12
Working Memory (WMI)
Digit span 13
Letter-number sequencing 12
Processing Speed (PSI)
Coding 9
Symbol search 6
All we have been told is that he is very capable but will need longer to process instructions and complete a task than his average peers.
We know that he has much better verbal than non-verbal skills (obviously with AS, non-verbal communication is very much an issue) and that he has some gross and fine motor issues comorbid to the AS.
We have just this past week discovered that he has some sensory problems relating to his sight, that we were unaware of when he took the test. We are also aware that he has poor convergence and therefore impaired binocular vision.
My gut feeling is that his visual-motor problems are dragging his scores down and muddying the picture a bit.
I don't know a lot about it, but I was wondering if a GAI score would shed some more light - or am I barking up the wrong tree completely there?
We are based in the UK, if that makes any difference.
Thank you in advance to anyone who is kind enough to take the time to read and/or try to help us.
