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[Annette]

I had my daughter tested at a University. She is two years behind on almost everything. The school did a Speech and Language test. I haven't got those tests back, But I did talk to the tester. She told me she was almost two years behind on all of the tests she gave her.
Does anyone know what would cause this? She is ADHD, but I didn't think ADHD could cause a 2 year delay in everything.

[catseye]

I dont recall how old your daughter is... My sd is almost 10 and functioning congnitively at about a 5 year old level.... We have had her listed on her IEP's as "cognitive impaired" "physically or otherwise health impaired" "adhd" and about 2 years ago they added "autistically impaired"...

I dont know if that helps you any, we thought originally that my sd's issues were all adhd related...

Maybe there is a learning dissorder at work in your daughter? Have hearing tests been done? Believe it or not we had no idea that my sd was only hearing about 40% of normal conversations, until she was 7 years old.... It seems insane that a child can learn to read lips, and compensate for a hearing loss of that nature, take it from me though, it is possible...

Good luck

cat

[Linda]

If they tested her on academics...that is not unusual for a lot of ADHD kids to be 2 years behind. It has nothing to do with her intelligence.

[SKay]

My son tested on the low range of normal IQ and some of his academic tests. The psych. said that we know he can do AT LEAST this much. She and the dr recommended language/speech testing which we are having done tomorrow. They suspect that a language problem could be causing the low scores. So maybe the results of your DD tests will help to answer some of your questions. I hope DS's tests will answer some of ours.

[Kaiti]

Like the others said, the 2 yrs delay showing up isn't a major let down.

All of the kids learn in a different way and get their answers out differently. My cousin could not take a test if her life depended on it, but ask her in passing the inmformation you want to know and BOOM, there it was.

Check for other ld's that pertain to hearing, sight and dysgraphsic/dyslexic tendancies......maybe that night help a bit.

[Annette]

My Daughter is 10,She's in the 4th grade.She was held back in 1 st.In Math she's in the 1 st grade range.Shouldn't she be at grade level in something?

[mothercat]

not necessarily... I have a 17 yr old neice who is still at 1st grade level in everything...the part of her brain that remembers things like words that she reads doesnt function...she is Ld .It can sometimes take a long time to pinpoint the problem and sometimes a longer time to fix the problem. I agree with catseye and kaiti...get her hearing checked and check for all the other ld's too. My ds is dysgraphic along with his adhd and it wouldn't have been caught if it weren't for people like them telling me to get it checked. I hope everything works out well for you.

[tridlette]

My neighbor's son went all the way through school not performing well, and always tested "within normal limits" when the specialists had hold of him.

come to find out, when he went for his driver's license, the guy is color blind! Not just "a little" but the poor kid, the parents sent him to get glasses on his own, he picked out a really nice frame, and nobody told him it was PINK! Fortunately, a girl from school came into the shop the same time, and said, "Ryan, what are you doing with pink frames?" She helped him out, but the clerk told mom later that she thought Ryan might be a little "queer" and he didn't want to dissuade him!

My Patrick was in 5th grade before we found he was 80% deaf in one ear. The kids CAN and DO compensate really well!

And if she is testing behind, be thankful they have found it now... my oldest was in 9th grade, a freshman in high school, before they recognized his LD.

Best Wishes, keep us posted!