Citrusheights5 Posted February 17, 2016 Posted February 17, 2016 I have no clue why I cannot respond to anything on my other thread and hate starting another thread on the same topic, so I am deeply sorry. WISC-V Verbal Comprehension 113 --high average Similarities 12- high average Vocabulary 13- high average Visual Spacial 84 Low Average block design 10- average visual puzzles 4-borderline Fluid Reasoning 100- Average Matrix Reasoning 10- average Figure Weights 10-average Working Memory 67- Extremely Low Digit Span 3- Extremely low Picture Span 5-borderline Processing Speed 103- Average Coding 13- high average Symbol Search 8- high average (Full Scale IQ- NOT REPORTED) Nonverbal 90 Average Cognitive Proficiency 81 low average General Ability 107 Average Have WIAT III, scores, basically oral language is high average, Total reading and basic reading low average, comprehension average, written expression extreamly low, math is average. CTOPP Ellison 8 / 25% average Blending words 6/ 9% low average Phoneme isolation 8/ 25% average Memory digits 7/ 16% low average non word repetition 11/ 63% Average Rapid Digit naming 7/ 16% low average Rapid Letter naming 8/25% average Phonological Awareness 84/14% low average Phonological memory 95/37% average Rapid symbolic naming 85/16% low average Beery-Buktenica VMI- he scored a 2 / 1% Lastly NEPSY Auditory Attention and response set: AA Total correct (5-12) 9/ at expected level AA Combined 8/ at expected level RS Total correct (7-12) 4/ below expected level RS Combined 2/ well below expected level Inhibition Naming total completion time 4/ below expected level Naming Combined 4/below expected level Inhibition total completion time 8/ at expected level inhibition Combined 7/ borderline Switching Total completion time 7/ borderline Switching Combined 6/ borderline Total Errors, 6/ borderline OT work up; Poor Core Strength, and regulation of arousal level for functional task, Movement/ deep input sensory seeker. Poor awareness/motor planning. Fine motor skills are delayed, poor directionality of letter formation/spacing, letter size consistency and poor baseline orientation. Low muscle tone in fingers. MCP joints all allow hyper extension. Low energy/weak, overall input processing. He is also attending speech once a week: for articulation errors. Whew!! That is a lot!! So tell me what you see experts??? Quote
PeterPan Posted February 17, 2016 Posted February 17, 2016 Did you tell us what you're doing for reading? Don't want to repeat what you've already mentioned. Would be interesting to see if he passes the Barton pretest. With the articulation errors and the low CTOPP, he might not. You can do the RAN/RAS dot pages to speed up the rapid naming. Costs you nothing, very effective. Have you had his eyes checked by a dev. optom? How is his social? And you're doing meds for ADHD? That arousal deal, like being low arousal, is no fun. The OT should be able to give you a lot of help there. Quote
MistyMountain Posted February 17, 2016 Posted February 17, 2016 His biggest weakness is his working memory obviously so I would work on that. I also agree that I would get him checked by a COVD if you have not done so. It looks like something could possibly going on there. It also could have been the motor planning aspect that lowered the scores there. With his weak phonemic awareness and articulation issues I would do the pretest to see if he would benefit from LIPs. If he passes the pretest then I would use dyslexia friendly curriculum. Quote
Citrusheights5 Posted February 17, 2016 Author Posted February 17, 2016 He has not seen a COVD, that is next on my list, but honestly at this point, we cannot afford it. Our insurance does not even cover regular eye visits. After having done a set of therapy with Miles, there is only one DR in the area, and the cost is beyond us at this point. Maybe in September, as I have two going off to college. He has passed the Barton's pre-test with flying colors, and even flew through level 1 when I did it with both boys (first grade and second grade) over Thanksgiving break. I did not have the results at that point, but I figured the stuff in level 1 would only help them with whatever the school was doing. We never moved past it, because I was only filling time during break with the boys. It took Miles almost 2 months to have level 1 nailed down, to have Ben fly past it in a week was encouraging. He is a good reader. But we are not doing anything much, as far as formal academics go. So no reading program at this point, we will more than likely used Barton's or All about Spelling with some of the walk through of Barton's. His spelling is way worse than his reading. He will pick up books to read for pleasure, and has been reading the eyewitness books on Astronomy. NO meds for ADHD, his doc stopped them because his depression and anger are too high. We are treating with Zoloft, and once his mood stabilizes we will re-introduce Concerta. Nothing was done as far as social. When we had our intake at the Mind Institute, their call was socially he was average with no markers for autism, so it was never further investigate. He has a hard time understanding what it means to be a friend, and being friendly. But he's fine on the playground and in short burst, just not over time. Sorry if that doesn't make sense 1 Quote
Citrusheights5 Posted February 17, 2016 Author Posted February 17, 2016 Heathersmoms: I cannot post on the other thread, it keeps telling me I am not authorized to post.. We are HUGE believers of technology. Miles has turned us all in big Cortana/ Google voice/ Siri friends. He is not thrilled with the kindle options. He will use his phone over the kindle. We have Dragon, but HATE it. It never works right. I currently have 3 kids learning to type. 1 using the school district program and Miles and Ben using TTRS. It is the only "school" that I am requiring of Ben at the moment. You asked about the scores and I posted them over here since I could not respond to the other text. Hopefully you can see it, or someone can redirect you to seeing it here. 2 Quote
Heathermomster Posted February 18, 2016 Posted February 18, 2016 (edited) Awesome! I hate the way that Dragon puts so many people off. Technology shouldn't feel painful like a hangnail to use. Our kiddos won't use products that are too complicated. We just have to try and see what works. It is nice that so many devices have the speech to text option. Based upon your son's numbers, I would expect audio books to be helpful. Does he use them? Edited February 18, 2016 by Heathermomster Quote
Citrusheights5 Posted February 18, 2016 Author Posted February 18, 2016 He loves to be read to, and we are having fun reading Warrior Cats books as a bedtimes stories, but beyond that not really, we will have to incorporate some audio books with him. Quote
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