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[quote=Anonymous]OP here - thank you everyone for your help.  Today's school meeting (which was "just" the initial EMT) was not as awful as I thought it might be.

I especially appreciate the information provided by 14:40/10:22.  The Achievement Comparison Tool is just the sort of thing I was looking for.  Unfortunately I wasn't able to find any information on how to find the prevalence score or even what are the specific scores that are compared.  We only had a subset of the Woodcock Johnson done but it isn't a big deal to go back and schedule more testing if there are other subtests MCPS is looking for.  DD is in 2nd grade and the InView test results are not yet available. (The school administered the InView test to 2nd graders last December.)  For the testing we had done, she scored 99th %ile on the WISC-IV verbal comprehension and 47th %ile on the W-J III and my understanding is that is a pretty big gap.  (The W-J Oral Language cluster was higher at 79th %ile because she scored 97th %ile on the Story Recall subtest.)  I don't see "standard scale" in our WISC-IV results but the GAI composite is 126 (verbal comprehension composite is 136) and the W-J scaled score for understanding directions is 99.

I guess the summary is that while I don't know what the prevalence score is or what they specifically are comparing, I think we meet the criteria of at least 22.5 ability/achievement discrepancy.  I think I will ask the testing psychologist to help with figuring out how their testing fits in the MCPS ACT model.

I appreciate the tutoring advice too.  DD does get extensive outside tutoring which we believe has made a significant contribution to her being on grade level.  We aren't looking for the school to replace the tutoring but we would like the school to provide help at least getting her in class writing to something approaching what she can do in the quiet, supportive tutoring environment.  (There are also other challenges and requests for help but the writing help is what is referenced in the scores I mention above.)[/quote]

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