Dottie,
Which test are you referring to? The FSIQ was the WISC IV. The eye test was very involved (had some block designs etc similar to IQ) but the test that tracked his reading speed was the visiograph. We when we went in for the results we actually got to see the story he read, with this marker that showed his actual eye movements, tracking, speed, going backwards to relook at words, and line and word skipping. It was fascinating. He read so fast yet you could clearly watch where his eye changed from one eye to the other. You could see where he tracked from right to left, line to line. He had times he skipped almost entire lines, jumped back to look at them, got to the end of the line of text and instead of going to the beginning of the next line, he actually jumped to the END word of the following line and then looked back at the beginning to start reading it, which should REALLY slow down his speed and comprehension. He was remarkably all over the place skipping etc and yet still had 11 grade level reading with 90% comprehension. His speed was still at 13th grade level. The doctor said that the speed reflects what an adult can do - we normally do NOT read all words in the text. That is a skill you do when you are older and have better comprehension. We don't NEED to read every word at 13th grade level. However, even though he skipped like an adult he still had the comprehension which is unusual for a child of barely 9. The girl that does the vision therapy for optometrist was in the room doing something else when the doctor told us his scores. She turned and asked, 'What did you say his score was, 13th grade speed, 11th grade level?' When the doctor told her yes she was shocked. Apparently in their practice with kids with tremendous vision problems they don't get kids at that level. Vision problems normally result in LOW comprehension, LOW speed, LOW reading level. He is an extremely good compensator, just how good is he really?..that is the question.
