Just wondering what other people's experience of this has been? Ds, age 3 years, 2 months, did the Wechsler Pre-school test this week. We don't know the results yet, but I sat in the corner of the room to observe, and I was quite surprised.
He did OK on the receptive/expressive language parts I think - I had my reservations about this prior to the test, it seems odd to test the IQ of a child with a language delay by testing their language?!!
The psych said he did very well on the blocks section - where he had to copy patterns that she made with little red and white cubes.
The thing that really stunned me was the puzzle section. I had expected him to be OK at this, but he was completely hopeless. I think he only got one or two right. With the rest of them, he just pushed the pieces together in a haphazard way and said 'finished!'
Her instruction to him was 'put the pieces together'. Maybe he took her literally, and didn't realise he was supposed to make a picture. But my instinct is that he didn't understand that they were parts of a whole - it really shook me. Has anyone else encountered this? Is it a typical autistic thing?
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beccaboo · 25/02/2005 12:43
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