We've got an upcoming TAT meeting to decide what to do with DS5 next year (he's in K). This year they've only given him "enrichment" in the form of third-grade Sunshine Math worksheets to take home, and some reading comprehension stuff from edhelper.com. He's learned more at home this year than at school, obviously. I am hoping for a change.
This meeting will be in April, date to be fixed. We are having some testing done prior to that. In the meantime we just did a DORA (online reading) assessment to see where he was at by rough grade equivalents, and it is way off from what the in-house school reading specialist claimed as to his abilities earlier this school year (her findings were highly suspect to us, but she works with disabled kids almost exclusively).
Now that we've spent the twenty bucks and got the results, I'm wondering if we really bought anything useful. It roughly confirms our own ideas about his reading levels, but it wasn't administered by a specialist and might be pooh-poohed if we bring it up. Plus, we will hopefully have actual hard-core tesitng results by then anyway. Is there any real use for this DORA assessment by parents in the real world, except to get their own rough gauge of what they're seeing?
