Official diagnosis

Mother’s instincts triumph again…

This morning I saw the psychologist who has been doing Mustang’s psycho-educational assessment, to review his findings. They show that, indeed, Mustang has a learning disability. She assesses very high (high average to significantly above average) in three areas of intellectual capacity, and very significantly below average in “working memory.” This type of inconsistency, coupled with lower-than-expected achievement in terms of school performance (and the lack of any other explanation, such as illness, depression, home environment factors, etc), is the hallmark of a learning disability.

Thankfully, the school has been proactive and has already started to take measures to address her learning issues. The psychologist will be making several recommendations that should have the effect, if followed, of reinforcing and extending the type of services available to Mustang through the school system. It may take until the end of this school year to get everything in place, but this will lay the foundation for continuing support and instructional modifications for future years.

I’ve known since early Grade 1 that things just weren’t clicking like they should. Now it’s official.