Thanks so much for taking the time to respond Peter Pan I really appreciate it. ADHD has not been mentioned (yet) by the school but I have wondered often as he has very high energy and can sometimes be very excitable. I have read lists of possible flags for ADHD and some of them are definitely true for him I have read a little about low EF and nothing resonates with me. If anything he seems to do everything 10 miles and hour. Would anyone be able to give me examples of low working memory or processing speed for 7 year old grade 1 boys? The only suggestion the Ed Psych had for improving this WM was Cog Med but its an awful lot of money to spend to improve something I am not seeing any symptoms of yet. I will look into the other methods you mention. One thing the Ed Psych sad is that he would continually tap the answer until the next question was on screen (ipad) but this was resulting in the next question being answered as soon as it appeared . Without reading. I have seen him do this at home too when there is a lag between answering and the next question. I the end she gave him a squeeze toy to hold and this helped. She said he was enthusiastic and engaged and this is very much his personality. One thing that I am not sure how relevant this would be is that hes not very interested in puzzles and really really not keen on jigsaws. When I can get him to attempt one I find I have to bring his attention back almost constantly I can sort of understand that there are other more interesting thing he would rather be doing but now I wonder if its connected to EF and he just finds it really hard. Again thank you for your helpful response, its nice nice to hear your daughter has done so well

My son took a WISC V at the age of 6 years 9 months. He did so at the insistence of his public school due to him being very advanced in all subjects in Kindergarten (FSOS age 6 in Australia) . They wanted to access G & T services for him. Results came back significantly lower than expected surprising his teacher & head teacher. I don’t have an issue with his scores and am not trying to change them but My concern is around the Working Memory and Processing Speed scores. Are these significantly lower than his other scores that there might be a learning difficulty? The Ed Psych said she thought with scores that he would start to have problems in the classroom about grade 3. Currently age 7 (year 1 ) he is a free reader and is passing comprehension tests aged 11.5 and working onwards. He does some grade 4 maths work and doesn’t seem to have any issues with his working memory or processing speed that I can see. I just want to be informed as to what issues we might encounter so that I can help him the best. Thanks in advance for any responses.

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Hello First time poster but long time reader of this forum. I just came across some Open University kindle books on amazon that are free. There are over 700 on various topics. To find them I put "The Open University" in the kindle store and then sorted price from low to high. This works with both US and Australian Amazon. If you don't have a kindle there is an kindle app for IOS and android and apparently there is also a kindle cloud reader for windows. Hope this helps either yourselves or older children or even some younger ones on this forum! Kind regards, Helen