My son is in 5th grade. This year we got him placed in a private school for LD children.
We will be having our first PPT meeting next week. I am preparing myself for this meeting and would like to hear your comments about his profile/scores.
I am hoping that with the new placement, he will get appropriate help in terms of academics and remediation for reading, writing and math, but there seem to be weaknesses that maybe we can address at home. I am looking for some comments and suggestions from others that might have seen children with similar profiles.
He did IM over the summer. After 18 sessions he was still at 33.6 ms, but we could not continue (summer ended to early :-)). I plan on going back for a few extra sessions during the winter break.
The summary is a composite of various testing. His IQ testing was done last fall, with VIQ-104, PIQ-132, FIQ-118. Three years ago, his IQ split was smaller, but it was there already: VIQ-118, PIQ-129, FIQ-123.
His reading seems to be finally coming along although it is still a difficult task for him. In May he tested as 3.3.GE on WJ-R , but the end of August his reading was re-assessed by Gates-MacGinitie Reading, and the scores were 4.2 GE and up (see below).
The major area of concern now seems to be his writing skills and his math skills (he did not have any help in Math last year he seemed to be functioning OK in advance Math placement in regular 4th grade- I only wonder how he did that with his math skills?).
It seems to me that his greatest weakness (from a cognitive point of view) is his short term and working memory (any suggestions how to help him? -would PACE or Audioblock help?). The word retrieval has been identified during neuropsychological eval. and during SL evaluation his rapid naming scores were: rapid digit naming 9%-ile, rapid letter naming 16%-ile. This seems to me is so hard to remediate- Beth mentioned Neuronet- not possible near us. Any other suggestions?
My son’s scores - at age 10-6. The percentiles based on age
Woodcock Johnson III Cognitive Abilities
(%-ile) SS
L-T Retrieval (61%ile) 104
Ret. Fluency (77) 111
Vis-Aud Lern (51) 101
SHORT TERM MEMORY (11) 81
Memory for Words (6) 77
Numbers Reversed (28) 91
Visual Proc. Speed
Visual Matching (65) 106
Auditory Processing
Sound Blending (42) 97
Fluid Reasoning (97) 128
Analysis-Synthesis (99) 134
Concept Formation (86) 116
Verbal Ability (45) 98
Verbal Compreh. (36) 95
General Infomration (54) 102
Visual Spatial Thinking
Spatial Relations (63) 105
Executive Processing
Concept Formulation (86) 116
Planning (66) 106
Working Memory (22) 88
Auditory Work. Mem. (22) 89
Number Rev. (28) 91
Cognitive Fluency
Retrieval Fluency (77) 111
Rapid Pict. Naming (9) 80
Raven Standard Matrices 96%-ile
WRAT-R 3
SS Grade Equiv.
Reading 91 3.5
Spelling 85 2.9
Arithmetic 92 3.9
WJ-Achievement
Oral Lang. (73%-ile) 109
Story Recall (82) 114
Picture Voc. (69) 107
Underst. Directions (46) 98
Oral Comp. (76) 111
Academic Fluency (20) 88
Reading Fluency (21) 88
Math Fluency (8) 79
WJ-R Reading (from May 2002)
(%-ile) SS GE
Letter-Word ID (21) 88 3.4
Word Attack (35) 94 3.3
Passage Comp. (28) 91 3.4
Reading Fluency (21) 88 3.2
Gates-MacGinitie Reading (August 2002)
Vocabulary (35%ile) 4.2 (GE)
Comprehension (55) 5.3 (GE)
Total (46) 4.6
The school’s Writing Probe assessed as below grade 3.
Hi Ewa,
PACE might be a good choise or Audiblox. Although it doesn’t directly help RAN it may help with processing speed which may or may not help in naming speed.
There are some other good ideas on some of the previous posts about RAN. If you do a search on this site and the reading site you may be able to find them.
With regard to math, you might also want to take a look at Lindamood Bell’s “Seeing Stars.” There’s also lots of excellent ideas on the math bulletin board.
Good luck!