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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is it a number or a number in relation to other numbers? My DD has a processing speed in 73%. Doesn't seem low to me but I guess in relation to her other scores it is. Is a 109 processing speed low (even though it's above average) when subtests are 139 and FSIQ is 132? [/quote]

It's not that the processing speed is low-- it's that it's low in comparison to the reasoning (GAI) scores.

My DS has a processing speed of 120 and a GAI of 146. We deal with processing as a problem because his performance is much slower than his reasoning. It causes frustration to think much faster than to perform. The IQ subtests are not independent of one another-- a 139 reasoning and a 109 processing will interplay. 
What is really hard is when a person's processing is borderline or low (think scores in the 80s) and reasoning is in the 130s or 140s. [/quote]

Well, it seems to me sometimes there's a problem and sometimes there's not. I have a DC with GAI of 144 and processing speed of 94 (34%). I'm bracing myself for the frustration he's supposed to show but so far nothing. Why isn't my child frustrated? Dammit, he's supposed to be![/quote]

I'm a slow processor, and I don't actually remember being frustrated as a kid.  I remember teachers being frustrated with me, but I just didn't understand why they expected me to be able to do things I clearly couldn't do.  We would have these horrible flashcard contests where two kids competed to see who could solve a mental math problem the fastest.  College was easier for me than high school, and my Ph.D. program was really intellectually challenging, but in a great way.  Looking back I can see how completely perplexed I was by things like worksheet and rote memorization, because I don't think that way.  If I want to remember a piece of information, I have to place it within some sort of conceptual framework-then I can go back and find it when I need it-if that makes sense.  And all that thinking takes time that you don't often get in school as a kid.  [/quote]

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