• BRIAN G. MURPHY, Ph.D. PSYCHOLOGIST 100 S. Tyler St., Tyler Square, Unit 7A, Covington, LA 70433 Mail: P. O. Box 1113, Madisonville, Louisiana 70447 Covington (504) 893-1678 LA License #507 PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION NAME: DATE OF BIRTH: DATE OF ASSESSMENT AGE: REFERRALSOURCE: December 13, 1996 August 2, 2008 11 Years, 7 Months The examiner was contacted several weeks ago by the above-named young lady's mother pursuant to there being interest in considering the child for possible placement in the parish's Gifted program. was 'described as being a quite precocious child who had been attending a particular private school in the Mandeville area. Apparently there was some concern as to her recent performance as would relateto mathematics, and for a multitude of reasons the parents are considering transferring the child to a local public school. Because she is thought to be bright, there is interest in pursuing her eligibility for the Gifted program, and as such, she was seen today for psychoeducational testing and diagnostic evaluation. Accordingly, the full Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children/Fourth Edition has been administered, along with selected subtests of the Woodcock Johnson Psychoeducational Battery/Fourth Edition. Indeed, the evaluation team has adhered to prescribed evaluation format standards in preparing this narrative document, again so as to be used to consider eligibility for Special Education Programming 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 are exemplary which range from the bright average to very superior level, i.e. Verbal Comprehension = 128, Perceptual Reasoning = 123, Working Memory = 129, Processing Speed = 112, and Full Scale 10 = 130. There are a few salient points that perhaps should be made at this juncture regarding these findings and intellectual testing in general. First, the WISC/IV is the instrument of choice in that this is the most widely-used individually-administered intelligence test currently employed here in the United States. Not only are we able to derive meaningful test scores which are useful