Wednesday, January 26, 2011

WISCing away!

I finished giving the WISC today to a little kidlet in the 2nd grade. I didn't actually need to do a cognitive assessment for her since she is already going to qualify for SLD using the RTI model, but I decided I wanted a good look at her ability. She is a really sloppy kid. Has a hard time keeping her thoughts and herself together. She seems to always be running like a maniac to something. I have a pretty good rapport with this little one since I have been working with her on her classroom behavior for the entire school year. She was pretty stoked to come in and test with me and I could tell she really gave it her best shot. I honestly didn't know what to expect for her IQ because she is amazingly low in academics. As a second grader she is only reading about 15 words in a minute, so she is very far below her peers. Even after 15 weeks of reading intervention, her rate of improvement in reading fluency is about .3 :( But, low in behold she is a completely average kid per her IQ of 97. She had really good perceptual reasoning skills, but her memory was her weakest link. It was below average, but not by a ton. So she is definitely a learning disabled kid, but it seems like there is something else amiss with her. Not sure what it is. She is so socially behind her peers, and even her motor abilities seem not quite right. I may have to try something else... maybe a rating scale? I guess though it really wont matter. She will qualify with what I have already done with her, but I am just so curious!

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