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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=SAM2]I think it's a great idea and should be very interesting.  If it were me, I'd go back to the same tester and make it clear to her you're just doing this to learn as much about your child as possible and see how he's doing.  She can best guide you on the most appropriate timing for the tests and any other considerations.

I seem to remember someone else posting a similar plan on DCUM a year or two ago.  I don't recall how it turned out.  You might check the archives to see if you can find her post, since it might include some good ideas.[/quote]

I think testing your child every year to get  an IQ measure on them is unhealthy. I assume that OP has a son or daughter and not a science experiment and there are equally good ways to "find out how he is doing" , such as: play with him, read to/with him, take him on walks in the woods and see how curious he is, have anothe rchild over and see how kind and generous he is or NOT. This , BTW, is all free . It is called parenting. The WIPPSI is a necessary evil because ....

To give you an analogy that perhaps you can relate to: how would you feel SAM2 if your spouse ran your earnings over the last year by a forensic accountant to see if you were earning to your potential based on your IQ , your degree and your work experience and she wanted you to go for this testing yearly, just to be sure that you were "developing appropriately" and "reaching your potentai" . Would that feel like being loved, to you?[/quote]

Sorry I did not respond earlier; I've been too busy spending time with my family yesterday ... playing out in the rain, making up games indoors, and reading books.  PP, you don't know me or my motivations, so I don't think you're qualified to judge me (or the OP).

Like anything else, the WPPSI is a tool.  You can use it effectively or ineffectively.  It has limited you need to be aware of.  You should have other tools in your bag too.  But to throw it out because of some bias about what other people do with it ... that is silly.  The way OP describes her situation, she wants to use the WPPSI like a camera, to get a snapshot of what her child's brain function looks like at age 4.  I still think that's a great idea if you can afford it.

Your analogy about my partner testing my earning potential with a forensic accountant doesn't really match what OP described, especially since OP indicated she's not concerned about benchmarks.  But nevertheless, assuming my partner had no ugly hidden agenda, I actually think that would be sort of cool.  What would be more interesting (to me at least) would be my partner signing me up for other diagnostics, like a MRI, or a sports aptitude test, or some other personality test.  In fact, as I'm writing this, I'm recalling some discussion we had many years ago, where we daydreamed about going together to get professional personality tests.  Ahh, young love ....

Anyway, I trust OP has figured out what she wants to do.

Sam2[/quote]

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