IQ Test

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  1. Ch0sn0ne

    Ch0sn0ne At the Track

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    I have a question for you Stacy.

    My son has Aspergers Syndrome. The school tested him and we were given the results of his IQ test. His score was 175. There was very little explaination other than a chart similar to what Nootch posted. He was also tested before he could read at his ped neuro and scored about 160. I don't remember exactly.

    Here is my question though. How can they assign a score this high to him and then he struggles tremendously with simple subtraction? He reads better than me and has a learning retention unlike anyone I have ever seen, but again, something so simple gives him complete fits.

    Any experience with this as a teacher?
     
  2. shaqazoolu

    shaqazoolu Concentrated Awesome

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  3. islstl

    islstl Playoff committee is a group of great football men Staff Member

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    I took one about 10 years ago and I remember it having at least 40 questions, maybe more. I scored somewhere in the low 150s. It seemed to be a pretty official test.
     
  4. LSUtiger327

    LSUtiger327 Pow right in da kissa

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    i took an official one way back when i was in middle school. i scored a 136. this test can't be right b/c i don't retain info like i did then. i'm stupider now not smarter??
     
  5. StaceyO

    StaceyO Football Turns Me On

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    Children with Aspergers are often extremely intelligent. There are some who suggest that Einstein exhibited all of the characteristics of Aspergers, and I'm sure you've heard before that many of his teachers thought he was retarded when he was young.

    It's not uncommon for a person to fail to grasp what is supposedly simple, but be actually quite intelligent. 175 is in a super-genius category, however. I teach between 50-60 gifted students a year (and, in fact, they are pretty much my specialty), but I don't even think that the student I have this year, who scored perfect on his SATs last year (as a 7th grader), has a 175. That student has been giving me pieces of his novels to read, though. He's a terrific writer, and I told him to finish one and see about getting it published!
     
  6. CajunPunk

    CajunPunk TF's Resident Realist

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    I'm one of the least intelligent here. :hihi:
     
  7. bhelmLSU

    bhelmLSU Founding Member Staff Member

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    Deek must be drunk and mad at my score because I got some negative rep from him.

    Sorry dumbass:hihi:
     
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  8. islstl

    islstl Playoff committee is a group of great football men Staff Member

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    any comment on the neg rep? or did he just leave it blank?
     
  9. shane0911

    shane0911 Helping lost idiots find their village

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    I must really be a dumbass, I couldn't even get my score:huh:
     
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  10. bhelmLSU

    bhelmLSU Founding Member Staff Member

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    Hardy Har Har was the comment. That was I assumed he was drunk.:wave:
     

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