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Martie, can you help me understand this?
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<blockquote data-quote="Martie" data-source="post: 13471" data-attributes="member: 284"><p>MM,</p><p></p><p>You can roughly figure out the SD score from their evaluation: if she was only six months behind at that time, the SS would not have fallen much below 90 (which is within normal limits) Age equivalents are a mess because they have no relative meaning which is why SS should be used. What does it mean if a 12 month old child is 6 months delayed (an IQ of 50 comes to mind--with the hope that it won't turn out that way.) A lag of six months at age 8 is a concern but unlikely to trigger Special Education services (absent a performance problem which your daughter had) and at age 18--a 6 month lag is no big deal at all. It might yield a SS of 97 or 98 (because so many more months have been lived.) One can represent this mathematically: at 6 months-- 6/12; at 8 years 6/96; at 18 years--6/216. </p><p></p><p>I suspect that the current Occupational Therapist (OT) is being compared to the 8 year old test and "no absolute gain" should yield a much lower standard score. However, what I am confused about is whether your Occupational Therapist (OT) and the SD Occupational Therapist (OT) used the same instrument; if so, one or the other was an invalid administration. If they were different instruments, then who knows?</p><p></p><p>At this point in time, you can ask for direct remediation OR you can go with accommodation. Keyboarding is important but not all kids with motor delays and handwriting problems are good at keyboard either.</p><p></p><p>I really think the memory issue is more important although not being able to do something as common and frequent as hand writing could also contribute to anxiety.</p><p></p><p>I do not have any personal experience with fine motor problems--it is a major strength for both my kids-- Professionally, I screened with the VMI a lot and referred complicated cases to the OTs.</p><p></p><p>I'm sorry I don't know more about this but GET THE PERCENTILE RANK ON THE VERBAL MEMORY from the SD. Then let them explain it away--it's going to be very low--On a scale with a mean of 50 and a s.d. of 10, a 25 is 2.5 s.d. below the mean. That's LOW--and the nonverbal memory subtest was at the 64%ile. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Good luck on this--it's a hard row to hoe--bright kid with a mood disorder, been there done that.</p><p></p><p>Martie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Martie, post: 13471, member: 284"] MM, You can roughly figure out the SD score from their evaluation: if she was only six months behind at that time, the SS would not have fallen much below 90 (which is within normal limits) Age equivalents are a mess because they have no relative meaning which is why SS should be used. What does it mean if a 12 month old child is 6 months delayed (an IQ of 50 comes to mind--with the hope that it won't turn out that way.) A lag of six months at age 8 is a concern but unlikely to trigger Special Education services (absent a performance problem which your daughter had) and at age 18--a 6 month lag is no big deal at all. It might yield a SS of 97 or 98 (because so many more months have been lived.) One can represent this mathematically: at 6 months-- 6/12; at 8 years 6/96; at 18 years--6/216. I suspect that the current Occupational Therapist (OT) is being compared to the 8 year old test and "no absolute gain" should yield a much lower standard score. However, what I am confused about is whether your Occupational Therapist (OT) and the SD Occupational Therapist (OT) used the same instrument; if so, one or the other was an invalid administration. If they were different instruments, then who knows? At this point in time, you can ask for direct remediation OR you can go with accommodation. Keyboarding is important but not all kids with motor delays and handwriting problems are good at keyboard either. I really think the memory issue is more important although not being able to do something as common and frequent as hand writing could also contribute to anxiety. I do not have any personal experience with fine motor problems--it is a major strength for both my kids-- Professionally, I screened with the VMI a lot and referred complicated cases to the OTs. I'm sorry I don't know more about this but GET THE PERCENTILE RANK ON THE VERBAL MEMORY from the SD. Then let them explain it away--it's going to be very low--On a scale with a mean of 50 and a s.d. of 10, a 25 is 2.5 s.d. below the mean. That's LOW--and the nonverbal memory subtest was at the 64%ile. Good luck on this--it's a hard row to hoe--bright kid with a mood disorder, been there done that. Martie [/QUOTE]
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