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<blockquote data-quote="HowMuchLonger" data-source="post: 410961" data-attributes="member: 11280"><p>Both my difficult child 2 and 3 have (forgive me for not remembering the proper terminology) problems with comprehension(?). When they did the woodcock-johnson testing I was SURE it would come back showing both my kids were geniuses! They are both incredibly smart and have enormous vocabularies even from a young age. I was shocked to learn that they could read highly difficult passages but not actually "get" it. UGH the words are on the tip of my tongue but I can't remember what the school called it. Basically their output is above average but anything being inputted is below their age/grade level. Especially difficult child 2, who on top of this issue is also hearing impaired and if not explained properly, clearly, facing him he misses or mishears half of the instructions or what's being asked of him. This has caused a lot of problems for them. One example happened just last evening. The kids were at swimming and difficult child 2 always hands in his hearing aid at the front desk for safe keeping. Afterwards he went up to the desk to get it. He said "I need my hearing aid please" while pointing at his ear. The woman at the desk didn't quite hear him and assumed the pointing to the ear meant he wanted to use the phone. There was another girl on the phone and one waiting behind her so she told difficult child 2 "you'll have to wait in line honey, 2 people are using the phone ahead of you". I could see him trying his best to process this and rather than correct himself or her he just went and stood in line behind the telephone girls. I watched the whole thing to see how he would react. I could tell he was somewhat upset as he feels lost without his hearing aid and now here he was having to WAIT for it!! He was also wondering why on earth he had to wait for the other two to get off the phone in order for him to retrieve his hearing aid and about 4 minutes into the waiting I was still waiting for the light bulb to go in...it never did. I went up to him and explained what had happened and brought him back over to the desk. He was still totally confused and not sure what the heck was going on lol. We got the hearing aid and I waited until we were in the truck to explain to him. It STILL took a full 2 mins before he "got it" and then he laughed. This is an enormously intelligent kid that was just completely confused over such a silly situation.</p><p></p><p>I could see this situation happening wiht him. Someone asking if he wanted something/to do something/go somewhere....him not quite processing the full extent of what that entailed and blurting out an answer so as not to embarrass himself by asking questions. Sometimes afterwards the processing has happened and then he's just P.O'd that he answered the wrong way and BAM...meltdown and those of us witnessing are like "well that was unprovoked!"...sometimes these kids make more sense than us adults <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HowMuchLonger, post: 410961, member: 11280"] Both my difficult child 2 and 3 have (forgive me for not remembering the proper terminology) problems with comprehension(?). When they did the woodcock-johnson testing I was SURE it would come back showing both my kids were geniuses! They are both incredibly smart and have enormous vocabularies even from a young age. I was shocked to learn that they could read highly difficult passages but not actually "get" it. UGH the words are on the tip of my tongue but I can't remember what the school called it. Basically their output is above average but anything being inputted is below their age/grade level. Especially difficult child 2, who on top of this issue is also hearing impaired and if not explained properly, clearly, facing him he misses or mishears half of the instructions or what's being asked of him. This has caused a lot of problems for them. One example happened just last evening. The kids were at swimming and difficult child 2 always hands in his hearing aid at the front desk for safe keeping. Afterwards he went up to the desk to get it. He said "I need my hearing aid please" while pointing at his ear. The woman at the desk didn't quite hear him and assumed the pointing to the ear meant he wanted to use the phone. There was another girl on the phone and one waiting behind her so she told difficult child 2 "you'll have to wait in line honey, 2 people are using the phone ahead of you". I could see him trying his best to process this and rather than correct himself or her he just went and stood in line behind the telephone girls. I watched the whole thing to see how he would react. I could tell he was somewhat upset as he feels lost without his hearing aid and now here he was having to WAIT for it!! He was also wondering why on earth he had to wait for the other two to get off the phone in order for him to retrieve his hearing aid and about 4 minutes into the waiting I was still waiting for the light bulb to go in...it never did. I went up to him and explained what had happened and brought him back over to the desk. He was still totally confused and not sure what the heck was going on lol. We got the hearing aid and I waited until we were in the truck to explain to him. It STILL took a full 2 mins before he "got it" and then he laughed. This is an enormously intelligent kid that was just completely confused over such a silly situation. I could see this situation happening wiht him. Someone asking if he wanted something/to do something/go somewhere....him not quite processing the full extent of what that entailed and blurting out an answer so as not to embarrass himself by asking questions. Sometimes afterwards the processing has happened and then he's just P.O'd that he answered the wrong way and BAM...meltdown and those of us witnessing are like "well that was unprovoked!"...sometimes these kids make more sense than us adults ;) [/QUOTE]
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