Cognitive Impairments

Our A-One is friendly and socially engaging.  However he has some cognitive impairments. The following summarises the results of his recent tests:

Average

vocabulary

general knowledge

literacy skills (reading and spelling)

 

Low Average
verbal reasoning
visual observation
planning, organisation, spatial/perceptual
numerical reasoning
auditory attention span
auditory working memory

Impaired
processing speed (he has always needed to be kept on task)
complex thinking

Summary
A significant discrepancy between language/communication and literacy skills and applied skills i.e. planning/organisation, speed of initiating and completing timed tasks, complex thinking/reasoning tasks
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