i know a little late

but we had wyatts meeting with his teacher and the special education team today. i was so nervous going in.. i mean the whole *unknown* side of what they could have found.. was it something that i would feel the need to have double checked before agree'ing to any kind of *plan* or is it something that would have made sense ~
first of all let me say that i have had so many big words tossed at me today it wasnt funny and im still left wondering what coding and encoding of words has to do with anything ~
but i made it threw the meeting and came home to go over the mounds of paper work i was given and ultimately figured it all out.. well other than that coding thing.. it still has me *wink*

okay so i will admit that i was soo plesently surprised! my wyatt i swear is a brain with just a bit of issues that will easily be worked on and fixed! and i told him that he was a brain and how happy i was with all i heard today..
of course they did the whole *what a pleasure he was to work with* speach .. ha thats because they dont know the real wild child.. *lol* seriously though wyatt is very friendly to everyone so i do hear that alot.. give him 2 minutes and he will talk your ear off..

wyatt scored awesome when it came to Verbal comprehension (93), Perceptual reasoning (100), working memory (94), processing speed (100) and that totaled out to be a 95 .. which is awesome!

than they moved on to basic reading and reading comprehension in which he recieved a 77 in both .. which of course is considered low.

than they went to Phonological awareness (94), Phonological memory (91), rapid naming (91) .. all of which are great scores.. and than Alternate rapid naming (79) again not so great...

*hmm* i just read this part.....
"on the rapid naming subtests, which measures the ability to rapidly recall information from long term memory, wyatt scored in the average range for letter names and numbers and in the low range for recall of colors and pictures." intersting..
yes im still doing a bit of decoding as you can tell...

anyways.. what it all boils down to is wyatt does qualify for special education.. he will recieve help in reading each day as well as continue on with speach therapy although his speach therapist says he is doing awesome in speach therapy! he will also get help with fine motor skills and they do not feel this will be a long term thing.

they said that it is better to catch it now and work with him than it would be to do if he were in say 4th grade.. so all in all it was a good meeting!