[blindkid] Psychological evaluation and IQ Testing

[SUSAN POLANSKY]

That's my question, why now at her age. My son had one at age 4 because we were foolish and did what the school recommended. His was done by a psychologist from Maryland School for the Blind and resulted in a determination of falling within the autism realm probably aspergers. Now if he had truly been autistic we would have delta with that but all his teachers who dealt with him on a daily basis felt this was totally off base. After that we refused further evals until 5th grade when after 6 years of having the school psychologist casually observe and speak with Jason and his teachers he completed an eval that got that "probably autistic" eval off his school records. He also did the IQ testing although Jason could not do the entire testing the psychologist felt her had enough to determine an IQ range. We did that totally out of our curiosity in wanting to know if he was as smart as his totally prejudiced parents thought he was. He is a high school junior
 now and if we had not done this in elementary school I would not do it now. Jason will get into college just like everyone else - by his grade point average, SAT scores, etc.


Susan T. Polansky
 

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Subject: Re: [blindkid] Psychological evaluation and IQ Testing
  
Why do they think she needs an IQ test?  For what purpose?
Chantel

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--- On Wed, 1/9/13, Bo Page <bo.page at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

From: Bo Page <bo.page at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: [blindkid] Psychological evaluation and IQ Testing
To: "blindkid Question" <blindkid at nfbnet.org>
Date: Wednesday, January 9, 2013, 2:26 PM

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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