I received a letter in the mail today letting me know that the school Psychologist did a test with Jaden at the end of the year. They are required to do this same test every year to measure progress. The letter stated that they did this same test at the beginning of Jaden enrolling in special ed preK, but I don't have the original results of that one in front of me, because her three-ring binder is scaring me when I think about looking through it for anything. I wish I had been faithful about keeping organized.
Anyway! The test is called the Battelle Developmental Inventory. Here are the results:
Adaptive Domain:
Self-care: age equiv. =3.6
Personal responsibility: age equiv. 2.4
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Personal/Social Domain:
Adult Interaction: 1.7
Peer Interaction: 2.6
Self-Concept and Social role: 1.6
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Communication Domain:
Receptive Communication: 1.1
Expressive Communication: 3.0
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Motor Domain:
Gross Motor: 4.1
Fine Motor: 3.4
Perceptual Motor: 3.5
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Cognitive Domain:
Attention and Memory: 2.0
Reasoning and Academic skills: 2.6
Perception and Concepts: 1.11
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It is typical for autistic people to be all over the place in their skills-in fact, it's one of the things evaluators look for in them-they have splinter skills. (Can do a difficult puzzle but can't talk)
Do you see why I hate dealing with this part of Jaden's disability? I don't WANT your test results, thank you very much. Once I receive them and try to process what it took to make even the slightest bit of progress (and the test results just cannot be acurate, by the way) I get so discouraged! I have to constantly shift between my belief and prayer and promise from God that He is healing my child, to wondering if I am so in the dark I can't see the truth that my child is never going to get well.
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