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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thank you all so much. I’ve been struggling with this. But all your own stories of your kids in similar situations, and your reassurances, make this much easier to handle. I need to accept that in the grand scheme of things, a test on an 8-year-old won’t determine her entire future.
Thank you again.[/quote]

Not to dash your hopes but yeah, it's pretty likely that your child is just going to fall in the very average range.  There are so many kids with your child's profile and scores and processing speed isn't really fixable.  There are some things that can hep improve it slightly but if you were thinking straight A's all the time with no effort that's not going to happen.  Once the homework load picks up, you will see the impact of processing speed.  Slower reader of more in depth texts and books so it might take several hours to get through a chapter.  It can take much longer to write an essay.  and so on. [/quote]

I disagree with the suggestion that a low processing speed score for a young kid will mean slow reading and comprehension. My DC scored in the 37th percentile on processing speed as a little kid, but is a natural speed reader who scored in the 99th percentile on the SSAT reading section with no prep (missed one question). DC writes slow, but types fast. All is well in high school.[/quote]

My kid had processing "issues" when she took the test and she is practically a speed reader with a huge vocabulary.  It's processing other kinds of information that's a problem.  "Processing speed" covers a lot of ground. [/quote]

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