calledtobehome Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 What are the benefits in having this test administered verses using the CAT or Iowa test? Do you learn more about your child strengths and weakness? Does it give you your child's IQ? Can it pick up Dyslexia? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calledtobehome Posted May 9, 2011 Author Share Posted May 9, 2011 Bump! Anyone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canadianmomtofour Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 :bigear: I'm curious too. My son is doing the Woodcock Johnson next week as part of his neuropsych eval. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwg Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 We did it last week instead of the CAT this year. Our state requires yearly testing. We did the Woodcock Johnson Achievement. I would say I learned a lot more about my child...but nothing was necessarily are a complete shock, kwim? He did better in math than I thought he would. Reading was validated-that kind of thing. The only other test I have done is the CAT and, for us, it felt pretty useless; just a hoop to jump through for the state. I am glad we did it; I will not be doing it next year, but I might do it again in a few years. Then though I will have to do some fast talking b/c my ds was not pleased :lol: I did not get an IQ. I am not sure about dyslexia.....ds was not dx with that. There are a couple Woodcock Johnsons I think and like I said we did the Achievement one so the others might. WE did get a stanine, percentile, grade level, and something else, i think. HTH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donna Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 My dd had a W-J done when she was 5yo as part of an assessment that included IQ testing (WPPSI). I don't feel like I got much useful information from the W-J. I mean...I got levels for where she was functioning at the time but the test only tests a sample of items in each level so though a 5yo may test as a 3rd grader in math, they haven't tested everything a 2nd or 3rd grader needs to know about math if you kwim. So it isn't like you could take the results from the test and know you need to place your child in such and such level. I don't know many standardized tests that really tell you much about what a child is really capable of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarfoot Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 This was just one of the tests in the battery used to diagnose my son's dyslexia. The entire evaluation took 2 days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calledtobehome Posted May 11, 2011 Author Share Posted May 11, 2011 Thanks so much for the feedback. I have decided to go with a full battery of test which will include the Woodcock Johnson. I'm having it done at a local university so I hope al goes well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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