Processing Speed Below 1st %ile High IQ??

[Babs17]

Hope someone can help.

DS has loads of difficulty learning and always has, but we can tell he is bright.

Assessment showed IQ in 95 percentile, but processing speed couldn't really be recorded as was below 1st percentile!!!

Obviously we now know why he struggles so much.

He has to work at least 5 times as hard as an "average" child to get average and below average scores, and he simply cannot sustain this for more than about 20 minutes twice a day. So he is falling further and further behind. Even when he has finished sokme work he is affected for at least another hour or even 2 or 3 hrs depedning what he was working on.

I have seen this problem compared to road works on a 6 lane motorway - and that is exactly how it seems.

Assessor indicated that there is very litle to be done about processing speed but that the online programs foir this are the best chance we have really. Quite sad.

Have seen jungle memory (or something) and may try it but the time that he would have to spend doing the tasks each day will have an impact on the rest of his life for the duration of the program - so is it worth it, is it that good?

Can anyone offer any advice?

Do the online "brain training" programs actually help in your experience?

Those who have Auditory Processing Disorder, which is a listening disability are not able to blend sounds, and can only reproduce the whole sound of a word.
So phonics and its methodology does not work.

Audiologist are the only profession qualified to diagnose Auditory Processing abilities, NOT sound learning school with dubious qualifications.

You would need a GP referral Great Ormond Street Hospital or the Nuffield Hospital, to have Multi - Discipline assessment (audiologist, speech and language, psychologist). These are medical issues which can effect learning. These problems are life long and require the correct medical diagnosis not some guesswork by an unqualified educational advisor.

Babs - very interesting site.

From: Tutorial: Slow Information Processing

Speed of information processing is influenced by a variety of factors. Neurologically, speed is affected by neurotransmitters in the brain and their balance, by the fatty covering of neurons (myelin) that speeds transmission,

I think this is why Omega Fish Oil helps. It's the stuff the fatty coverings are made of (I think). Certainly giving my DD Omega Fish Oil def sped up her processing.