[blindkid] Psychological evaluation and IQ Testing

[Carol Castellano]

Hi!

Do you have the sense that your daughter struggles in these subjects 
because they simply are difficult for her or because there were 
things lacking in her education that caused the current situation?  (Or both?)

It's the school recommending the testing, not the vocational 
rehabilitation (VR) person?

Carol

Carol Castellano
President, Parents of Blind Children-NJ
Director of Programs
National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
973-377-0976
carol_castellano at verizon.net
www.blindchildren.org
www.nopbc.org

At 09:46 PM 1/9/2013, you wrote:
>Because she struggles with math and English and doesn't show 
>evidence that she
>will be able to pass an SAT.  However, that doesn't explain why an updated IQ
>and psych eval will help. It doesn't make sense to me or why the services for
>the blind would want it.
>
>
>
>
>________________________________
>From: Richard Holloway <rholloway at gopbc.org>
>To: "Blind Kid Mailing List, (for parents of blind children)"
><blindkid at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Wed, January 9, 2013 7:26:37 PM
>Subject: Re: [blindkid] Psychological evaluation and IQ Testing
>
>Let me try that again. New software and "send" is easily bumped. Sorry!
>
>I'm not clear if the high school or the college is asking, but why 
>ask at all at
>the end of high school, and why not traditional entrance exams like SAT for
>college?
>
>
>Sent from my iPhone
>
>On Jan 9, 2013, at 7:21 PM, Richard Holloway <rholloway at gopbc.org> wrote:
>
> > I'm inclined to ask the reason for testing at this time is well.
> >
> > I'm not clear from your post
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Jan 9, 2013, at 3:26 PM, Bo Page <bo.page at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Does anyone know when doing a psychological evaluation on a 
> blind child and
> >> testing for IQ that it's best to use someone who knows how a blind person
> >> learns?  My daughter is transitioning from school to college and 
> the school has
> >>
> >> recommended that she be tested.  My concern is that if the 
> evaluator has no
> >> experience with blindness then the test may be inaccurate.
> >>
> >>
> >> Connecticut mom
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