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What does this kid need?

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All,Testing has just been completed for my son, “Raven.” As far as the school is concerned, he doesn’t need any help, outside of some speech therapy. When I look at the scores, I see a kid about to enter middle school who needs a LOT of help. He has made zero progress in one area, and very minimal (less than one year) progress in most others. His FSIQ (WISC) is 133, and on the Woodcock achievement testing his grade equivalents range from 2.6 to 13.6. But the broad scores are at grade level (5th) or slightly above, so he’s doing “fine.”Bringing up that broad reading score are decent Passage Comprehension (11.0) and Reading Vocabulary (8.9).Bringing up Broad Written Language is “Writing Samples” (13.6). Of course, he can’t SPELL anything in writing (2.9), and knows next to nothing about punctuation and capitalization (2.6) and only a little more about usage (4.7). But evidently the content is great.The resource assistance that he’s had has not done a whole heck of a lot of good — he’s actually REGRESSING, relative to his age peers (nevermind the IQ peers). And now they don’t think he even needs that much.I know I need to ask for more….. but what? What sort of a professional can look at test scores and psychological reports and help to design an appropriate program?I appreciate your assitance.

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