Ed Psych. assessment this week. Urgent help needed.

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Have requested ed. psych. assess for processing difficulty and poor short term and working memory. Does anyone know what kind of assessments they can do for this? Thanx

The EP knows what tests to use for working memory and short term memory. They're easy to test for.

Not sure exactly what you mean by processing difficulty though.

Do they mean that it takes him time to process verbal instructions or information? It's quite common. Typically, if a NT person doesn't understand you quickly the first time, you would naturally rephrase the question, to see if that helped. The worst thing to do if processing is slow, it would seem like a completely new question. Ask once in a unambiguous and simplified way, one or two tasks at a time, and give plenty of time for a response.

Quite how they test for it, I don't know? They may check for multi-part instructions, increasing the complexity? Eg "Give me the teddy's bag," when the choice is a doll's hat or bag and a teddy's hat or bag for 2 part. "Put the doll's bag on/under the table" for 3 part etc and see how quickly your DS complies.

Thanx, they think he is slow to work out mental arthmetic and generally has poor output at school, very good reader, spellings fine. writing fine.
Haven't had him assessed before and not on sens register, but several years of complaining from school that he isn't engaging. Ears and eyes fine, sats levels where they should be. Yes I think they think he does process verbal information slowly. Any other ideas? Don't think he is on autistic spectrum at all. Cheers.

I Think what you're describing is 'slow processing' rather than 'processing problems'

DD had this really badly. It went away with a lot of therapy.

May have to pick your brains on this one in a few weeks indigobell, if the report throws this up. THanx