So I called today the eval center and the tester that would be testing S15 called me back. She said H didn't tell her we were going through D and that he would be using the testing report as a court document. He said the testing would be used for public school placement. Liar, liar, pants on fire. I told the evaluator the truth and she said both parents would have to consent to the eval. I didn't cancel the eval b/c I'm going to leave it up to the L. She said they couldn't really tell whether public school would be a better alternative for the kids than hsing or not. My idea is that on the rare chance they say the kids aren't ld then he sends them to public school. Otherwise when the predictable delays occur (they have them a little in reading, writing, and S15 has math delays, I'm thinking he will say those delays are my fault or due to hsing rather than their lds and autism. But H for example, went to a special school for dyslexics in Miami ($15,000 a year) for elementary and middle school (7 or 8 years) and when they tested him in junior year college he tested at a 4th grade writing level. I truly believe he had the best education money could buy and he had severe delays. She said they look at the final IQ score rather than the subtests (10 is average). When S15 got tested at 7, he had 5s in 3 or 4 of the areas and 13s in some. (Same as his dad when he gets tested who is also dyslexic). They average the scores together and it comes out to 104 which looks normal, but really isn't. If he got 5s in every area, they would consider him retarded (50 IQ). But his good areas (visual-spatial) bring up his score to normal. But on the other hand we haven't had them diagnosed with the reading and writing disabilities which I believe they would. Don't know if that would help or not. I'm going to leave this up to the attorney (I see her at 2pm today). Karen
