Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Identification, Testing & Assessment Detailed results on DD's test

I don't know how all LD's are defined, but in our sd, they test IQ and achievement then look to see how they compare. They come up with something called a discrepancy analysis, where they determine how high the achievement scores should be based on IQ. Where there's a difficency, there's an LD.

Thanks a lot for all the answers (it's me again, Isa)

DD was diagnosed with a visual problem when she was 3 and has been some months following visual therapy until we got into trouble because of the person who did the therapy ... I have made her to do some basic eyes exercises since and now finally I have found a behavioral optometrist in Spain that will see her when we go to see my parents.

And there is a BIG discrepancy btw IQ test and academic performance. For example she is not reading yet, she does not even know the whole alphabet ! And she 'cannot' (or rather will not) count more than 20....

The problem is that tis discrepancy is the result of several factors: one maybe the visual problem, the other is the multilingualism (remember, she is being educated in four languages). Then the fact that as intelligent as she is, she has to be exposed to new concepts and facts to learn about them, and the last one is her own perfectionism and lack of trust into herself.

I think the last one is the one that needs more attention.

I just noticed: what is the FSIQ?

My poor neurone has melted trying to answer the why why why why why why questions of DD.

OK, I got it: Full Scale IQ

Reading about GAI and FISQ, I think the IQ DD has got is more comparable to GAI because the test was not timed and there were no short-memory subtest.

Hi Dottie,

we just posted at the same time

The test was actually developed to test deaf children and now, I think it is used to make certain that immigrant children do not get discriminated.

Sorry, Isa! I didn't mean to get all lingo-y there.

Many HG+ kids have FSIQ scores not in the HG+ range because of things like Working Memory, which are obviously useful, but aren't generally held to be as indicative of GTness as the scores that feed into the GAI. So an FSIQ score that's as high as your daughter's is pretty impressive even among HG+ kids.

Wowsa!

Now you are making me blush !!! LOL

Dottie, in the Critical Thinking Skills books, analogies are done as pictures initially, then move onto words only. Perhaps that is what they use.

Picture of a foot and knee, a _______ and an elbow

As far as I know, all the subtest are done with pictures.

There is no need to know the Dutch (or any particular language) at all.

There are even instructions on how to administer the test without verbal directions.

Another thing that is different from other tests is that the tester gives feedback and she says if the tester makes a mistake - but not why, to allow for self correction.

I think this maybe a double-edge sword with DD because at home if I tell her she did a mistake she looses interest in the activity and pretends she cannot do it.