Article: While IQ tests are imperfect and are not an objective way of determining intelligence, they can provide a ballpark indicator of a person’s potential intelligence. You can work with your child’s school to facilitate the IQ test. If the school can’t provide the test, they can put you in touch with a child psychologist or therapist who can provide the test. In order to have a learning disability, your child must test as being of average or above average intelligence. This might be on reading, writing, math or a combination of all 3 subjects. The standardized test will evaluate your child’s academic performance and help qualify the amount of knowledge they have understood, remembered, and are able to reproduce. If your child scores low on both the IQ test and the standardized achievement test, they will most likely not be diagnosed as having a learning disability. The same situation applies if the child scores high on both tests. The IQ test identifies your child's potential achievement, while the standardized test measures your child's actual achievement. Therefore, if your child tests 115 on the IQ test but only 95 on the standardized test, there is a gap of 20 points between potential and achievement. This may indicate a learning disability. A learning disability can be established when there is a large difference between the IQ score and the standardized test score.

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Assess your child’s intelligence potential through an IQ test. Ask the school to administer a standardized achievement test. Compare the test scores with the help of a counselor.