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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are talking about academics not sports- plenty of corralary and no cut teams exist.
Anyway, working memory and processing speed have lower impact/weight on overall intelligence than verbal and non verbal reasoning- these are the hallmarks of intelligent behavior- your ability to reason with and without language.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is BS. He has documented low processing speed and ADHD. You need to push back even if it means hiring a lawyer. This will affect him far into the future - SAT, college accommodation, etc. You need to fight and get this changed. And if it means always taking the accommodation, then tell him to always take it.

FYI my son in MCPS with ADHD didn't always use his extra time, but they didn't take it away. I think they tried in junior high school but we pushed back and they dropped it and no one in high school tried to make him drop it.[/quote]

Hot take - low processing speed and inattentive ADHD should not be accommodated with extra time. Those are vectors of intelligence and capability that are meant to be tested in timed tests, not disabilities, in the vast majority of cases. The low processing speed one especially rankles. My kid has awful motor planning skills - does that mean he deserves and accommodation to get on the football team?
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Maybe the kids with higher processing speed but lower nonverbal reasoning are being unfairly discriminated against. [/quote]

To be fair, a kid with median verbal reasoning skills and 99%ile processing speed may in fact be demonstrating some other kind of disability -- language or auditory processing based perhaps? [/quote]

Yes that was my point. My kid has an ASD dx and blistering processing speed/working memory and poor NONverbal reasoning. Unlike kids who get to turn on and off the disability label he is visibly different. [/quote]

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