Does anyone know which psychoeducational tests typically administered by the school give information on memory functioning? Are there specific tests for memory?
Within Woodcock and WISC, do any scores offer clues/direction on memory functioning? DD typically does fine once something is in her long term memory but depending on the subject it may take a (very long) while for it to get there.
DD is about to be declassified from special ed (and I am happy/fine/agree with it!!!!! so party time), but dd works so damn harder than other kids. Her reading/writing/math have come so far - leaps and bounds (I saw the special ed director choke up when she saw dd went from 16th %ile to 70th %ile in expressive writing last year).
But the rote memorization, ADHD inconsistency, learning multi-step tasks (e.g., division or multiplication sequences) remain a challenge for her. I’m not sure there even is anything the school could do, but am concerned about her burning-out.
The school typically does Woodcock and WISC for cursory check of problems and sp ed qualification, but usually not much more than that.
Yipee for dd!!!!
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In the field of epilepsy, there are some memory tests which are given to help evaluate patients prior to possible epilepsy surgery so that the surgery does not damage areas of the brain necessary for living/hopefully doesn’t damage areas of the brain needed for living. For some reason it appears that part of the ADHD field is still somewhat underdeveloped as in trying to clearly measure important aspects of short-term, medium-term, and long-term memory. Am unaware of a single test which really does a good job in looking at human memory for either children or adults with ADHD at all.