Kindergartener with average or above average everything but below 10th percentile for numerous language tests

[Anonymous]

The school finished a full evaluation of our kidnergartner and its the strangest thing. Everything in their psych and processing testing came back average or above average, but language was an incredible fail. Like 2nd to 12th percentile across the board.

How? What is that?

There was some concern for hyperactivity but that doesn't explain being average for math and completely failing in just reading / writing / comprehension.

If you had a child like this what was it?

[Anonymous]

There are many kinds of language disorders, specific learning disabilities or other disorders that impact language processing. Has hearing and auditory processing been tested?

If you want more info, please post FSIQ plus IQ subcategories and specific language achievement testing scores.

[Anonymous]

That sounds “normal” for dyslexia. It depends what you mean by language. If it is things like phonemic awareness that is low, that is the key deficit in dyslexia. As pp said, sharing the measures that were low could help us help you understand it. You can also put it into ChatGPT and ask what it means - surprisingly decent interpretations. What did the psychologist say?

[Anonymous]

mine has similar scores and it was dyslexia

[Anonymous]

Did the school do a speech and language evaluation? Was it just reading comprehension that was low or also decoding? How is his listening comprehension?

[Anonymous]

They did several assessments. Here they are:
CELF 5
Above average receptive,
Below average expressive, vocabulary, syntaxes and morphology

Kaufman
Reading composite 5th percentile
Math composite 65th
Written language composite 2nd

CTOPP-2 10th percentile

VALLS at risk

FSIQ 70th percentile

Overall age-appropriate cognitive function, memory skills, attention at risk but not clinically significant.

[Anonymous]

Definitely seems consistent with dyslexia. I would argue for IEP eligibility under specific learning disability, but also get tutoring outside of school from someone certified in an Orton Gillingham curriculum.