•

BRIAN G. MURPHY, Ph.D.PSYCHOLOGIST

100 S. Tyler St., Tyler Square, Unit 7A, Covington, LA 70433Mail: P. O. Box 1113, Madisonville, Louisiana 70447

Covington (504) 893-1678

LA License #507

PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION

NAME:DATE OF BIRTH:DATE OF ASSESSMENTAGE:REFERRALSOURCE:

December 13, 1996August 2, 200811 Years, 7 Months

The examiner was contacted several weeks ago by the above-named young lady'smother pursuant to there being interest in considering the child for possibleplacement in the parish's Gifted program. was 'described as being a quiteprecocious child who had been attending a particular private school in theMandeville area. Apparently there was some concern as to her recent performanceas would relateto mathematics, and for a multitude of reasons the parents areconsidering transferring the child to a local public school. Because she is thoughtto be bright, there is interest in pursuing her eligibility for the Gifted program, andas such, she was seen today for psychoeducational testing and diagnosticevaluation. Accordingly, the full Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children/FourthEdition has been administered, along with selected subtests of the WoodcockJohnson Psychoeducational Battery/Fourth Edition. Indeed, the evaluation teamhas adhered to prescribed evaluation format standards in preparing this narrativedocument, again so as to be used to consider eligibility for Special EducationProgramming and for general planning as would relate to academics.

TEST RESULTS AND INTERPRETATIONS:

Administration of the WISC/IV has resulted in s obtaining 10 scores that areexemplary which range from the bright average to very superior level, i.e. VerbalComprehension = 128, Perceptual Reasoning = 123, Working Memory = 129,Processing Speed = 112, and Full Scale 10 = 130. There are a few salient pointsthat perhaps should be made at this juncture regarding these findings andintellectual testing in general.

First, the WISC/IV is the instrument of choice in that this is the most widely-usedindividually-administered intelligence test currently employed here in the UnitedStates. Not only are we able to derive meaningful test scores which are useful