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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD has multiple medical and learning disabilities including [b]very slow processing speed, receptive and expressive language disorders [/b]and moderate hearing loss.  She also has a [b]high IQ [/b]and worked extremely hard in school to get a high GPA in honors an AP classes, but always had a 504 for extra time, because that was the single thing that leveled the playing field for her.  I think everyone should Have extra time, but please don't assume that students who get the accommodation don't need/deserve it.  If you observed how hard my DD works to keep pace, you would have a different view, I think. She used her extra time accommodations on ACT and SAT.  Her good scores were consistent with her abilities and the school she chose has been a really good match, but she still has to work very hard, take a slightly smaller class load in order to keep up and manage her medical conditions.  She receives accommodations at her university and is aiming for a profession that will be a good fit for her strengths.  Accommodations for disabilities were made for students like my DD.  I know that there have been abuses, but the remedy is not to question their use when fully warranted.[/quote]

i mean kudos to your daughter for working hard, but how is this even possible? what does it mean to have a high IQ if your processing speed is very low?[/quote]

you don't understand that going fast does not mean you are smart?

http://everyday-learning.org/fast-but-slow-processing-speed-and-the-gifted-child/[/quote]

Of course going fast means that they are smart - very very smart. Sure, a cottage industry has popped up to support and label kids ‘gifted with slow processing speed’  :wink: , but that doesn’t mean that the actual smart people with fully working brains aren’t smart. [/quote]

As a parent of a child with a gifted FSIQ while also having slightly below average processing speed and a learning disability I wholeheartedly agree. We are in an odd time where our kids’ cognitive profiles are being looked at piecemeal. But one index is just one index! Real life isn’t compartmentalized like that. Math requires every single intelligence index. So does practicing law. So does practicing medicine etc. is the full scale IQ the only number that matters? It weighs the other indices in a way to provide some kind of “one number” like average. But, no. Really it’s  just one test at one time. It’s not a magic number. These tests aren’t great.

You know what these tests are great at? Helping professionals diagnose learning disabilities. That’s what these indices are good for.

My child has a learning disability. To say she’s as smart as kids with a higher IQ because she has a disability is preposterous! She is what she is. She should not be given accommodations on an IQ test. I’m not so sure she should on the SAT! So that she score higher? To show how she would score if she didn’t have this disability? She does! Real life doesn’t come with accommodations. I hear other parents claim they do. But, no, they don’t.

What we can provide for her is access to learning. We can help her learn. We can work around her deficits. Which she will have to learn how to do for the rest of her life. [/quote]

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