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IQ testing

ToastieSimonsToastieSimons member
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Who would administer this?

Right now, I'm fairly certain DS1 is ID.  He does have an X-Linked Intellectual Disability however, very little is known about it and some of the milder cases can have iq's of 70 or slightly above.  I know that some of time having a child/adult with ID is much easier to find assistance, grants and equipment.

Will his difficulty with receptive language and his inability to communicate skew the testing?
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Re: IQ testing

  • kcisthebombdotcomkcisthebombdotcom member
    ToastieSimons said:
    Who would administer this?

    Right now, I'm fairly certain DS1 is ID.  He does have an X-Linked Intellectual Disability however, very little is known about it and some of the milder cases can have iq's of 70 or slightly above.  I know that some of time having a child/adult with ID is much easier to find assistance, grants and equipment.

    Will his difficulty with receptive language and his inability to communicate skew the testing?

    It will. My dd just did the testing and was mostly uncooperative. She did well on the nonverbal portions of block sorting/patterns and puzzles but answered like three of the verbal questions before she said done and attempted to walk out of the room. Lol. It's incredibly hard to get a read on a preschool age kid. I'd probably wait until school age and then even take the results with a grain of salt as iq is a fluid number.
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  • mommy0411mommy0411 member
    The school psychologist did both a verbal and nonverbal IQ test on DS1 last week at his school district testing (he is about to turn 3). They did that testing first so he was pretty cooperative. Since your DS is already in preschool you might be able to ask the school psychologist to do the testing.


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  • macchiattomacchiatto member
    The school psychologist did one on my son as a part of a full psyc eval. He was pretty cooperative for that part of the testing. She did say to basically take the number with a grain of salt at this age.
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