Psych Assessment Results

Shmoo had another couple of sessions (last Friday and Monday) with the psychologist, E, to complete the assessments. I went back by myself today to go over the results with E. She hadn't had a chance to finish the official report but we were able to review his scores. There were no real surprises, it just confirmed what we've known for a while now. E is hoping that she'll be able to mail a copy of her final report to us next week (as well as sending a copy to TASDAS).

The results for the ADI-R were all well above the cut-off scores, indicating definite ASD traits.

As for the other tests, Shmoo scored really well on perceptual reasoning; and he also did really well on the reading and language sections (but not so good at applying language to a social context). He got a very low score for working memory, which E thinks is due in part to his perfectionism - he checks every single thing over and over again instead of relying on his working memory. Also did very badly on the maths sections, again partly due to the perfectionism/working memory thing. He scored low on all of the timed things as well because he did everything very slowly and carefully, trying to get everything correct and neat (yep, perfectionism again!). E also picked up on Shmoo immediately saying "I don't know" to problems he could probably work out with a little thought but he was so convinced that he wouldn't get it right so didn't bother trying.

Anyway, there was a lot of other stuff that I can't remember so it will have to wait for the final report.

(After Monday's session we finally had enough spare time for Shmoo to check out the really cool trees across the road from the psych. They'd been pruned so that the only branches were low and ran more perpendicular to the tree trunk... perfect for climbing and swinging on! It was an interesting sensory experience too. The branches were smooth and flexible; and the dark green leaves, glossy with serrated edges.)