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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, what prompted you to get this testing done? What specific reading assessments were administered? Tell me more about the orthographic testing. Does your child have any anxiety?[/quote]

The thing that pushed me over the edge to do the testing was yet another bombed DIBELS and then shortly after we got the surprise of her very high CoGAT scores.  When we learned of the CoGAT scores, we were like wait what…what the heck.  But the backdrop to all of that was her unexpected trouble over the years with learning letters and sight words and us wondering why is this kid the slowest reader in her class.  And, then also in our heads was that everything began to turn around when she got on ADHD meds—except the reading, which still remained (improving but) problematic.  Oh and her standardized achievement testing has always been all over the map.  So kid with 97th percentile in CoGAT nonverbal and 92nd percentiles in composites but latest state achievement test in math was 35th percentile.  It all just didn’t make sense to me.

I don’t have all the specific reading assessments in hand now but I have my notes of the final mtg with the neuropsych and notes tied to scores say:  basic reading, reading fluency, phonemic awareness, decoding, word reading, oral reading, orthographic fluency, orthographic choice, reading comprehension (and also listening comprehension and receptive vocabulary), spelling/writing, and GORT reading rate.

It was a lot of tests.  7 hours total.  Notes have the IQ type tests and then reference to “learning word lists” (which she was in 99th percentile for, which is interesting because some of the orthographic stuff *feels* like it’s a memory issue but really it’s not that type of brain function).

As for anxiety, nothing of note came up of note on the behavioral health screening that was done.  That said, we wondered and I will remain on the lookout for it.

Someone else asked about any identified processing issues and I think none other than the orthographic stuff.  She did have a RAN result in the 25th percentile, which was the other outlier.[/quote]

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