Dore Talk

We have had an updated assessment report on Matthew this week. The Ed Psych decided he wanted a Wisc IV as the initial one done in March 2006 needed updating from the WISC III. They are planning on updating this prior to him moving to Secondary school, and wanted them both on the same test.

Interestingly the verbal weaknesses found on the initial report have disappeared, his verbal comprehension index is average 98 previously he scored 83!! Wow what a jump from below average to almost smack on average (even if you can't compare directly as they are different tests), I see this totally down to Dore as it was the first thing we noticed after starting, words coming out that we had no idea he knew, not as much umming and arghhing and you know, you know (come to think of it we never get that now). Auditory and verbal processing is supposed to be one of the 1st things to improve and even the teacher commented that he was joining in with conversations and not looking lost anymore (she didn't know about Dore at the time.)

The new test now measures working memory, his lowest score, was 88 -low average, the very thing that Dore says they target, so an update on that in 2 years will be interesting. Processing speed was also on the low side 91 so room for improvement there as well (God knows what this would have been last year). I should say 100 is average (90-109).

Reading now scores at age 10.4 (Feb 2007 8.6) (Nov 2006 9.6)

Spelling Age 8.0 (Feb  2007 6.3) (Nov 2006 6.6) Spelling has really jumped, I have been doing Stairway to Spelling with him sinc end of Feb 2007 but he is finding this easy on the whole:- the abilty to retain the information is there.

Lelly Mathew is certainly coming along in leaps and bounds, did the ed psychologist said what he thought had helped his difficulties to improve? they usually have a rational reason why they think it has happened and do not consider that Dore may be the reason for it, Usually because they have never heard of it. Ellie  XXX

He said the improvement may be due to the S&L lessons he gets 2 x 30mins week, As these lessons are in Welsh and the test was in English I find this highly unlikely. He doesn't know that Matthew is on Dore. Matthew has time to catch up before secondary school, so I don't care what he thinks but he will be getting a letter at the end.

 Just wondering why you did not tell him about Dore?  Was it because you didn't want that to skew the results? 

I want them to see improvements with out putting them down to all the "effects " that  the "experts" argue can cause these improvements -pygmalion effect, etc sorry forgotten all the names this early in the morning. Perhaps being to cautious but there is alot of opposition to Dore from the other groups with vested interests and a lot of politics involved. I want them to say -what an improvement, first.