Analysis of the Psychological Assessment Report of my first student for 2019



The internet says the following about IQ Test Scores

IQ Test Score Guide
Intelligence Interval
Cognitive Designation
85 - 114
Average (68% of test takers)
115 - 129
Above average
130 - 144
Gifted (2.3% of test takers)
145 - 159
Genius (Less than 1% of test takers

While tests may vary, the average IQ on many tests is 100, and 68 percent of scores lie somewhere between 85 and 115.

My first student for 2019, Emmanuel, scored an IQ of 130 for the Geometric Nonverbal Intelligence Quotient (GNIQ), which ‘indicates his problem-solving and reasoning for an unfamiliar design that was used as stimuli is also superior’. Find extracts of the assessment here.


Shouldn’t we ask how it is possible that a kid with such an IQ is unable to read?

Both Dr. Fauziah Bt. Zainal Abidin of Gleneagles, Kota Kinabalu and Dr. Atiqah Abdullah, a psychologist in Kota Kinabalu, have diagnosed Emmanuel as a dyslexic. 

It is so easy to label such a child as dyslexic and let him ‘rot’ in school.

Many very intelligent kids are wrongly classified as dyslexic when in actual fact they are instructional casualties. The initial input is wrong and that is why these kids are unable to read. They had shut down because of confusion.

I have to teach them to unlearn what has been taught wrongly before I can teach them the correct sounds of alphabets. 

Even more difficult is getting these kids to ditch their bad habits they have learned to cope with being unable to read.  They have learned to guess words. Even when they have learned phonics and can use phonics to decipher words they still guess words in passages they have previously read. This bad habit of guessing to cope with the inability to read takes time to overcome.

Here is my post on how he reads after just 7 lessons.


Location: Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

Comments

Luqman Michel said…
On our 4th reading my student read the word 'mug' as 'rug' and read 'jogs' as 'run'. He read the word 'rat' as mouse using picture clues.This is what I mean when I said that he still guesses words when he can already read phonetically. This guessing habit that has been learned as a means of coping to avoid shame will take more than a month to overcome.
January 31, 2019 at 1:10 PM
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