Advice: "The Listening Test" and "Test of Problem Solving"

My daughter is 8 and attends 3rd grade at a private school. She has been having some difficulty with reading and writing and some apparent problems socially. We recently met with her teacher to discuss this and found that the school had brought in a speech-language pathologist to administer two tests, The Listening Test (linguisystems-1992) and Test of Problem Solving (linguisystems - 1984). The teacher presented us with a summary report of the results, which indicated a severe delay based on the Test of Problem Solving.

I have a number of questions about this. First, are schools permitted to arrange for this kind of testing without consulting with the parents first? I admit I was taken aback at being presented with the results after the fact. Second, are these particular tests “mainstream” tests in this area? (for example, I looked at the linguisystems web site and found that the Test of Problem Solving was updated in 1994 and wondered why the 1984 version would have been used instead). Is there any reason we should question or doubt the relevance of the tests and the results?

Before this came to our attention, we had been advised by an OT friend to have our daughter tested to see if there might be some identifiable causes for her reading, writing, and social difficulties. We had set this in motion already and are wondering whether the school’s test results would point us in the same or perhaps a different direction.

I am brand new to all of this and have had a little trouble following the lingo in some of the posts I’ve browsed, so if you do have any advice, please keep that in mind! Thanks.