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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would get her evaluated privately. The school has an incentive to find “just low IQ and not a learning disability,” because then they’re not on the hook for services. [/quote]
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Whenever I come on this board it takes a second before I become disgusted by the negative attitudes towards the school.
IQ scores cannot be "made up" and "just found" and the person who is evaluating your child does not have an agenda. If anything, the school psychologist is probably upset to find out that your child had this lower IQ, and was glad that she could be qualified under a different category. 
I'm a school psychologist (with a clinical license, and I've worked in both sectors). OP, I would recommend requesting a re-test in a year or so, especially if your child is recently diagnosed with ADHD. ADHD can significantly depress cognitive scores in an artificial way. In addition, I completely agree with the poster who recommended you keep exposing her to new information and be patient. Now that she has acquired the basic reading skills, she is in a great position to be successful! I'm sure she has many wonderful strengths that will aid her going forward. Keep her feeling positive, successful, and enthusiastic about school as much as you can. [/quote]

If the examiner doesn't test properly, then the score doesn't mean much. My five year old daughter needed an IEP for her speech impediment. She scored high on every section but cognitive processing speed. She had to quickly identify bugs. She stopped and pretended to be every single bug, so that score was disability low. The examiner only instructed her once and didn't restart and correct her when she wouldn't listen. My husband and I weren't allowed to speak at all, so we just watched it happen. My daughter got an overall score of 110 because of that. The examiner said not to worry about it and the low score will be ignored for the IEP because she isn't actually impaired in that area. So who knows what my daughter's real IQ is. Is she gifted? Should she be in a program for that? I'll never know because of the lackadaisical attitude of the examiner and department. [/quote]

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