My 7 year old son in the 1st grade was having trouble comprehending and the school tested him—everything was within normal range. This year he is continuing to have the same problems, just worse. He actually got an f on his 1st nine weeks report card. His teacher states their is definitely a problem and that she strongly thought it was dyslexia. I took him to a dyslexia institute, and paid for the report, and they stated he did have it. I turned in the report 6 weeks ago, and still have not heard anything. The teacher did state that they are going to be testing his eyes and hearing. I brought up the results from the beginning of school that I had done privately. I just took him to a speech therapist and had the CELF done and it came out in the normal range with scores ranging from 88-92. They did a lindamood Bell test which got a score of 32 which is the Kindergarten range. They also did a CAPP test which also showed similar results as above. When I took him to the dyslexia institute, the same deficits were noted with their tests as the lindamood bell. Now, with a score oof twoo tests, 1 by a DR and one by a speech therapist—both showing kindergarten range (a delay by two grade levels) in digit recall, short and long term memory, and auditory processing. What is actually a 15 spread mean?????? Thanks
Wow Beth
we think alike!
I used the same example of 100 IQ. I don’t know why our posts ended up in different threads. Maybe we posted at the same time.
A 15 point spread usually means the school is using a discrepancy model to qualify kids for help. The 15 point spread is 15 points difference in the standard score of IQ and academic achievement. So if a kid had a deadon average IQ of 100, they would need to have a standard score of 85 on a reading comprehension test, for example, to qualify.
This model is assuming that an LD is present when there is a significant discrepancy between IQ and academic performance.
Beth