Evaluation Results today!!

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I have a meeting at 6pm to hear the results of my dd testing. It takes me almost 2 hrs to get to the clinic so I will have to go alone so someone is here to put the kids to bed, do homework, etc. The speech and hearing results came in the mail. I don't reallly understand them but all her scores except one were in the normal ranges. So, they did not recommend any further testing in that area. I can't remember off the top of my head what the low score was in.

I really wanted my mom to go with me, because she has an education background but she can't make it.
Can't wait to hear what they have to say, but I am a bit nervous. Hopefully I will understand how to help my dd better after I get the results.
nat

[Mayleng]

nat when you get the results post it here, I will ask Sharon to checkin on it.

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Well, I drove almost 2 hours and I got Nothing!!
They did not have a copy of the report to bring home with me. They said I will get one in the mail end of this week, early next week. And then what they said made no sense. First we discussed the WISC. They said the results were not completely reliable because my dd consistently did not follow the directions correctly, so did all the problems consistently wrong. So everything is skewed. I do not know how this test is administered, but if she was failing to do it right, knowing that the results would be innacurate if the directions were not followed couldn't they have re read them to her?
These were two graduate students doing the test.

So then they said she would not qualify for anything because performance is equal to intelligence. Well, if the intelligence test is off, then how can the be so straight forward about that.

They also said that a diagnosis of innattentive ADHD should be looked at more. so, if my dd is innattentive ADHD, and was not being treated for it, how could that interfere with the test taking and therfore the results.

I was just shocked to hear them say that she has a lower than average full scale IQ. I am just really surprised at that, and do not feel that it is accurate.
I know no one wants to hear that about their child and if it is true , well it is. But my gut tells me that is not the case at all.
When I get the report, I could really use some help sorting it all out.
I am late meeting my dad so I better run. Just had to vent a little bit.
thanks,
nat

[nevergivup]

nat605,

Reliability of IQ scores is one of my pet peeves. Test results can be affected by many factors, attention being one. Ideally, the test should be administered by someone who has observed your child in the classroom and socially over the course of several days. To have two graduate students tell you that "performance is equal to intelligence" is unprofessional and wrong, considering there is great debate as to what these tests are really measuring.

I personally know several "high IQ" people who function very poorly in society and the workplace. I also know "high IQ" children who perform very poorly on accademic tests and receive D's and F's on their report card. I really believe there is more than one kind of intelligence and the results from that particular test are not related to success as an adult.

Trust your gut. You know your child! You can chose to disregard the test results.

nevergvup

[Mayleng]

I would say the these students did not know how to administer these tests.

My son was tested by his neuropsychologist when off meds for the major part and then tested on meds for one day. He did the tests (45minutes each, once a week over a period of 5 weeks).

Whether the evaluations are accurate depends on who administers it and how good they are.

Post the results when you get them, and we will get Sharon to check it out.

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Thanks guys.
i will post the results when I get them and perhaps there is some logic to this afterall.

Three close family members of mine are teachers and one is a Special Education teacher. They have all seem my dd since she was tiny and have followed her progress in school. We all agree that she is inattentive. In fact when my dd did the self test they said she rated herself as inattentive. But, no one thought that she was below average intelligence like they told me.
But relatives also sometimes look on with rose colored glasses. I do know that there is sometime of problem, but I feel is is more of a learning disability and not the inability to learn as they suggested with the comment that "performance is equal to intelligence"

nevergvup, these graduate students observed my dd for a morninghe week before the testing, but during two of the classes there was a substitute and they did not follow normal class activities which is hand on science.
I am a little bit disappointed. I knew there would be students involved because it was at a teaching college but I thought they would be more in the observational role. I never met their supervisor.
I'll post more when i get it.
Thanks for the moral support.
I am so grateful for this sight. You are my lifeline during these times.
I read through the post everyday and am always learning.
Thank you.
nat

[Mayleng]

Nat, my son's neuropsych told me that because my son was tested without meds (for the IQ portion) that his IQ could have been slightly depress because he was not as attentive as when he was on meds. His IQ is in the Superior range, Neuropsych thinks it should be in the Gifted range. So if your child has ADHD and was not medicated, her results could have been depressed because of that.