Ten- Year- Old Brian Has a Full- Scale Score of 110

Multiple Choice

Ten- year- old Brian has a Full- Scale Score of 110 on the WISC- III. However, in school achievement tests Brian seems to be about a year behind his classmates in reading and spelling, and lagging by about half a year in math. Brian's mother insists that he has a learning disability. The teacher says he is simply lagging and needs more practice and some remedial help in the classroom. In this case the

A) mother is correct simply because the teacher should label the child as he needs special assistance in the resource room.
B) teacher is correct because a discrepancy is usually set at two years behind the regular class.
C) mother is correct because, by definition, a learning disability is a discrepancy between potential and performance.
D) mother is right because lags of more than six months in reading and math are characteristic of learning disabilities.
E) teacher is correct because Brian's math is better than his reading.