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[quote=Anonymous]Hey there - It seems like most parents who have their kids take the WISC-IV save it for the appeal.  Did anyone submit it with their self-referral application and have good luck with it?  My son did ok on one section of the CoGAT - 116, but not well enough to be in the pool.  His other test scores were lower, in part because he is partially deaf and the Naglieri is oral based so he just doesn't process oral tests so well as reading them.  He has had all outstanding grades in both 1st and 2nd and we decided to get the WISC-IV test done because the AAP coordinator at our school said that with his CoGAT and Naglieri test scores, it would make his application better if he scored well on the WISC-IV.  We had him take it and his scores were all over the place, but he did amazingly well on the verbal section, with 99th percentile overall and the highest possible score on the comprehension section (99.5th percentile).  We decided to submit the WISC-IV with the parent referral based on the AAP coordinator's suggestion, especially since I have made a decision not to appeal if he doesn't get in because the third grade teachers at our school in the regular program I'm told are as good as or better than the AAP program so I'm ok with him taking the CoGAT and Naglieri again in 3rd grade since I understand that they can retest one more time and this time he will know better what to expect (I did not test prep him at all).  Plus, with his WISC scores all over the place (though he did excel in the verbal), I wasn't sure if he would have a worse chance on the appeal than with the self-referral process.  I don't know how his teacher rated him because I didn't look at what they sent, but I know his teacher thinks highly of him and encouraged us to submit a parent referral application.

Anyway, I'm just curious if anyone else submitted WISC scores with the parent referral and had success getting their child into the AAP.  Does anyone know if doing fantastic on the WISC in one section is good enough to get into AAP the way it is on the CoGAT and Naglieri?[/quote]

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