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can someone help with ed pych report please?

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Crawling · 25/07/2013 18:26

Verbal scaled scores, receptive vocabulary 7, information 6, picture naming 5, object assebly 10, block design 5. Does anyone know what this means?

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MrsDeVere · 25/07/2013 18:29

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Crawling · 25/07/2013 18:33

No she was mostly on the 10th percentille for things its so hard to ask as its in a table and the report is too longto post here. But I don't know anyone in el with a autistic dc to ask.

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LIZS · 25/07/2013 18:42

ds had something similar, is it a Cognitive Assessment . If so I think scores are out of 15, with significant difficulty identified below 7. Could you ask the EP to give you the context and explanation?

Crawling · 25/07/2013 18:48

It is a cognitive assessment thank you lizs I may ask for it to be explained.

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MrsDeVere · 25/07/2013 19:25

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ouryve · 25/07/2013 19:29

Did the report mention the name of the assessment used?

ouryve · 25/07/2013 19:43

It looks like WPPSI-III - scores range form 1-19, mean is 10, scores of 8-12 considered average.

It would make sense that her object assembly score is higher, as I'm guessing (I've not seen the actual test) that it's a skill which is language independent. Actually, from here, it looks like it is - and block design depends on interpreting something she's seen before building, it, so she hasn't done so well there.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wechsler_Preschool_and_Primary_Scale_of_Intelligence

I'm sure that someone who know more about the test itself can explain more.

Crawling · 25/07/2013 20:10

Ouyvre yes it is the wpps thank you very much.

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ilikemysleep · 25/07/2013 22:12

Is your DD very young? This looks like the 3-4 year old wppsi?

First - th eyounger a child the less accurate testing is as the closer they get to 'testable' boundaries. Don't assume this is a permanent picture.

Receptive vocab - child show 4 pictures on a page and asked to point at a named object (eg 'where's the snail?') tests comprehension of nouns at single word level. DD scaled score of 7 just below the average range and probably around 12th percentile.

Information - general knowledge, eg how old are you, what colour is grass. Obviously reliant on lang comprehension. DD score of 6 again rather below average range.

Picture naming - shown a picture, they have to say what it is eg a car, fork. Expressive vocabulary. DD's score of 5 below average.

These 3 would be summed together to make a verbal reasoning score which would be pretty low, I would guess around 5th to 10 th percentile, so at present she has a less well developed set of language reasoning skills than would be hoped. Development seems typical in that she understands more than she can say.

Object assembly - basically assembling jigsaws. her score of 10 is absolutely average for her age.

Block design - requires copying of towers, bridges etc modelled by the examiner. Crucially, requires the child to grasp that you want them to copy or build one 'the same', not add to yours or do what they want - so sometimes kids with poor language comprehension score lower not because they have poor spatial skills, but because they didn't understand what was required. I would check this with the EP before concluding anything about her spatial skills, given that her one word comprehension level isn't secure.

HTH!

Crawling · 26/07/2013 09:41

Thanks I likemysleep dd is 4 now but was just under when then test was done dd is diagnosed with classic autism so mostly her language and poor attention showed up during this assessment.

She was granted full 1:1 with close monitoring to see how she copes. I understand what you are saying that block design may only be a problem because of her language delay and you are right about the percentilles.

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