I FIRST WANT TO THANK ALL WHO REPLIED TO MY FIRST POSTING (7 yr old son- dyslexia)- I APPRECIATE ALL COMMENTS. I AM POSTING THE RESULTS FROM THE SCREENING THE SCHOOL DID ON MY SON. THE TESTS I WAS TOLD WOULD BE DONE ARE- INDIVIDUAL READING INVENTORY, WOODCOCK JOHNSON TEST OF ACHIEVEMENT, SLOSSONS INTELLIGENCE TEST, TEST OF NONVERBAL INTELLIGENCE, AND CTOPP (COMPREHENSIVE TEST OF PHONOLOGICAL PROCESSING. THE COPY OF THE RESULTS I WAS GIVEN ARE GENERIC, MEANING THEY DON’T REALLY EXPLAIN HOW HE SCORED ON WHAT OR WHAT IS STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES ARE, BUT THEY ARE AS FOLLOWS- PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS- 94, PHONOLIGICAL MEMORY- 91, RAPID NAMING- 79, LETTER KNOWLEDGE- 93, BROAD READING- 84, BROAD WRITING- 74, DECODING 86, WORD RECOGNITION- 93, SPELLING- 91, BASIC READING SKILLS- 88, READING COMPREHENSION- 91, ACADEMIC SKILLS- 90, ACADEMIC FLUENCY- 77, ORAL LANGUAGE- 107, MATH- 92. HE WAS NOT ABLE TO DO THE ORAL READING FLUENCY OR THE WRITTEN EXPRESSION ANT EVEN THE MINIMUM LEVEL. THIS IS ALL THE INFO I WAS GIVEN. I WOULD LOVE ANY FEEDBACK ANYONE HAS TO OFFER.
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If these are standard scores, which they appear to be, they would compare to average in most instances and some deficits in a few others. It is important to have the IQ scores to accurately determine qualifications.
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Start with a really good reading program. You might consider buying the book reading reflex to address his reading issues yourself, if you can.
If you can’t (and for some parents and kids it just doesn’t work out) a phonographix tutor of a Lindamood Bell center is your best bet. Just please realize some schools do a very poor job teaching kids to read, they just don’t use effective methods.
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You should have 3 IQ scores, 1) verbal; 2) performance; and 3) full scale. Is 108 his full scale?
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Please, please FIND YOUR ALL CAP KEY IT IS ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE KEYBOARD AND MAKE IT SO YOUR MESSAGE DOES NOT LOOK LIKE THIS BECAUSE IT IS SO VERY HARD TO READ.
Want to help.
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They did a Slosson (a shortened Stanford-Binet like test that is little more than a screening) and a nonverbal test. She should have two, they did not do the WISC. Her child has a rapid naming deficit and processing speed is low. This child probably is LD. Phonological processing scores are also a tad low.
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Please type your messages as you did your name (with big & small letters). If you don’t know when to capitalize that’s okay - spelling doesn’t count!
As standard scores go, this kid’s struggling. 90-110 are the “average range” and it seems like as soon as it gets put on paper, he has trouble with it. Starts having trouble with that “phonological awareness” — the little sounds in words, not having anything to do with their meanings — and it gets worse when he has to read.
Interesting that his oral language is a real strength and his IQ is at the high end of average — but I owuld definitely want a WISC-III with its subtests done to figure out his strong and weak thinking patterns. Sounds like he understands meanings and the “big picture” better than the parts or isolated details.
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Yeah, I noticed the low scores. I just was interested in a split as well. Didn’t clue in to the different test, i.e., having only 2 IQ scores.
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Can someone tell me what is meant by “oral language”? I am thinking of asking the school for an IEE (independent educational evaluation). When I see the other scores people have posted I notice the results I have are not very specific. Has anyone done this?
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Amy, have you actaully had a meeting to discuss the results yet? At that time, I would ask for a complete report form the evaluations rather than just the score summary which is what it sounds like you have. There should be an explanation of strenths and weaknesses and in what areas he qualifies as LD.
Janis
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I’m not happy w/ the situation. I had to ask for a copy of the results, and all they gave me was the the summary page. The results were not explained to me. They could not answer my questions. They did recommend more testing… which is in progress.
Unless I am missing something there isn’t an IQ score. There should have been a verbal, performance, and full scale score. The Slosson should have provided this. (I don’t like the Slosson because it is to “quick and dirty” to seem valid)