I had my dyslexia assessment with a real life educational psycologist today.
It was quite fun! If not rather embarrasing when you can't work out things... like take forever trying to work out how machines you would need to make something in half a day, when it takes 8 machines 6 days... got it right though. Just took too long! Another good one was putting pictures in the order they happened... bit of a pain in the arse that one!
Playing with cubes of colour was also fun!
Well all the tests he did gave me an overall IQ of 141, with 144 in verbal skills and 125 in visual abilities or summat. Putting me in the top 0.3% of IQ thingies... this looked quite good on the non-dyslexia front... then he said here is your reading age... 16 years, 6 months. Putting me in the bottom third of other people my age.Some other bits looked quite bad too.
His overall assement suggests that for my age I'm mildly dyslexic, but for my IQ I'm modertatly dyslexic. He is going to suggest that I get given cash to buy a PC and a tape recorder. Oh and 25% extra time in my exams and not have my coursework marked badly if I speel things wrong or punctuate, badly. Pity it's all too late to be of any use!... I and the University get the full report on the day of my presentation, I think! Doh!
So there you go! At least I know...
Hmmm, wish I'd taken the chance to get tested at university. I went through similar sounding tests when I was about 11, then again at 17, and was told that I had a minor neurological disorder which is similar to dyslexia, but isn't. That got me the ability to use a PC to write A-Level exams, which pushed my marks in wordy exams from D to A :-)
While I can normally type pretty well, my handwriting is terrible. It's always been bad, and is part of the reason I went for tests in the first place, but now I find myself doing classic dyslexic things like muddling letters around.
Posted by: Joe on May 12, 2004 3:09 PMSo your IQ test was right after all. Are you sure you're not a visionary Philosopher?!
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Posted by: George T.Manilla MD. on April 5, 2007 2:49 AMHow much did the test cost you? Your overall IQ is fantastic!
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