Re: Re: How much credence on cognitive tests?

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Yes, Clinical Psyche, that's who children see with other issues besides educational, or so the story goes.

All the tests have been re-done but the verbal comprehension and processing speed do not have a centile but a comment that says "Not appropriate to interpret due to significant discrepancies between subtests" that alone tells me this isn't the average teen! There are only 2 results one on the 25th which is perceptual reasoning and considering he is quite talented in Art I would still think 25th for attention to detail and visual motor integration is pretty darned low. Working memory of course is desperate at 4th and what to make of unable to interpret?

Mandi, this seems to be the way of it, go off and sort yourself and your kids out, truth is they wouldn't know what to do, this is the same team that turned away also for OCD, you know I would respect them more if they just held their hands up and said they don't know what to do.

Mind you Iv'e met worse, one well known ABA provider who stood in my garden at great expense to County and said...............wait for it, this is good................... "Any idea's guys"?

Vicky

Re: Re: How much credence on cognitive tests?

Vicky

I would investigate because someone mention to me before that only something above the 25th percentile would be considered as within the average and therefore not having learning disabilities everyone that fall below the 10th percentile is in the critical zone. Besides saying that a child does not has learning disabilities a sum of several cognitive markers and all have to be assessed to reach such conclusion.....working memory is just one of them, you have processing speed, perceptual reasoning, verbal comprehension and that is just a test

and if the last test was done 3 years ago you can in fact request another testing ..... the minimum time between tests is 2 years you are over so .....

ask to clarify and where do they base this affirmation because being able to accessing the national curriculum is not the same that no having learning disabilities .....

this is one of my old battles with the LEA my son scores like yours below the 10th percentile in most areas and I still have things like it is the other children that cause him to have anxiety behaviours and also why he is still in KS1 how stupid can people be ??? just got his statement back some of his part 3 alineas are hilarious I would laugh if the problem was not serious .....