Re: Just got back w/test results (IQ test)

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This is so true about IQ test for individuals lacking in language

skills. The school's psychologist do often use one of the 2 IQ test,

that are very verbal base.

When we had my daughter tested back in 2001 at Central Michigan

University, the psychologist had informed us, because our daughter

has severe Receptive & Expressive Langauge Disorder, she would never

score at where her true ability level would be at. It would not be a

reliable test of intellegence. Therefore, another type of IQ test

should be given that does not rely so much on verbal skills.

- Ball

>

> I know, I thought for a year before dx my daughter had it. Still,

when

> it came down to it, my heart was broken. It will get easier!

>

> That said, hey should have given her a non-verbal IQ test. If they

> gave her a standard test and not a non-verbal test, the IQ results

are

> completely invalid. If you feel like it, I would write them & tell

> them so, it's not fair to you or your daughter to have taken 3 years

> and then not even administer the correct test, if in fact they did

use

> the wrong one.

>

> HTH,

> Debi

>

>

> http://www.iser.com/resources/autism-iq.html

> Can that be Right? IQ and Autism

>

> by Hertog, J.D., Florida School Partners advocacy

>

> More and more often I am advocating for children on the autism

> spectrum who are achieving at or above grade level, but whose IQ

> scores show them to have below average or even mentally deficient

> intelligence levels. The IQ score is supposed to represent a

person's

> ability to learn so, how could it be that a child could be learning

so

> well but be mentally retarded?

>

> The answer is that it can't be; it makes no sense. New research

> shows that the IQ scores of children on the autism spectrum may not

be

> accurate reflections of their innate intellectual potential. While

in

> the past many psychologists have believed that the vast majority of

> children with autism had below normal intelligence, recent

scientific

> studies have questioned it.

>

> As it turns out, the standard IQ tests (the WISC-IV and the

> Stanford-Binet), which school psychologists and others often use, do

> not tap the true cognitive ability of many children on the autistic

> spectrum. According to the highly respected National Research

Council,

> in order for an autistic child to perform to their ability on a

> standard IQ test, they must be able to quickly respond to verbal

> questions and have well developed motor skills. But if your

disability

> by definition prevents you from doing that with the test

administrator

> (as autism often does), you may not be able to demonstrate your true

> intelligence....

>

> http://autismbulletin.blogspot.com/2007/08/autistic-kids-score-

better-on.html

> Thursday, August 16, 2007

> Autistic Kids Score Better on Alternative IQ Test

>

> Autistic children typically score poorly on traditional IQ tests

which

> are based on verbal responses to a stranger's questions. But what if

> the children took a different test, one that allowed them, by

> themselves, to analyze geometric shapes to identify patterns?

>

> As Sharon Begley of Newsweek recounts in the August 20 issue,

> researchers found that the second method showed that autistic

children

> performed, on average, much better. Read the article, " The Puzzle of

> Hidden Ability, " here....

>

>

> http://autism.about.com/b/2006/02/21/those-iq-tests-were-wrong.htm

> Those IQ Tests Were Wrong!

> In not very surprising news, it turns out that standard IQ tests are

> lousy tools for measuring the intelligence of autistic individuals.

In

> fact, say researchers presenting at conference sponsored by the

> American Association for the Advancement of Science, standard IQ

tests

> may lower our kids' scores by 30 IQ points or more.

>

> A Reuters article, entitled Bright Autistic Kids Misunderstood, lays

> out all the details. Among other points, it states that a particular

> IQ test, called the Raven Progressive Matrices, is a far better tool

> than the usual Wechsler or Vineland IQ tests.

>