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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All processing speed means is that under a 2 minute timed condition, your child was able to complete x number of rote items. It's also just a measure of how focused they were, how seriously they took the task, whether they were tired, etc. I wouldn't take it too seriously. [/quote]

And if your child has any motor skills issues, the score looks artificially low, at least as it corresponds to cognitive strengths. [/quote]

And if your child is a perfectionist and is overly careful in order to be 100% accurate processing speed might be lower because the child fir 2 minutes is coding accurately and making sure if matches or no matches in symbol search for 2 minutes.

A better indicator for how your schooling is going to be impacted is to interpret processing speed with the sentence writing fluency tasks in the wjiv academics. You have 5 minutes to look at a picture and three words are given. You write  a simple sentence like the picture is of a boy building a sand castle and the words are sand, castle, boy. So you write anything with those three words like The boy is building a sand castle. Or the boy makes a sand castle.

That’s at least a 5 minute task and shows how quickly you can write. If you score in the 25th percentile in processing speed but sentence writing fluency is higher like the 75th percentile rank then there most likely isn’t a problem. But if your processing speed is in the 25th percentile rank and sentence writing fluency is in the 5th percentile rank, you are really going to need extra time doing class work and homework. [/quote]

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