Yup, I remember years ago a small movement of clinical psychologists and school counselors pushing to end the concept of dyslexia entirely. Not sure if that was an overreaction, but they were responding to some research that showed that dyslexia “treatment” is the exact same as treatment for “low reading ability”. Since they couldn’t find a discernible difference between those two, they thought maybe we aren’t doing our best by treating something as a disorder when it is more likely due to lack of practice and skill-building.

It’s like expecting everybody to be able to play basic music scales at age 8, then giving a child a diagnosis because their family never played music growing up so they didn’t develop an ear for it. If we can support the child’s growth and development to where they no longer “meet criteria” then we ought to hold discourse on whether such denominations are helpful or useful at all.

in some ways yes, but either way the traditional IQ test (WAIS for adults, WISC for kids) didn’t even exist in 1924 so i’m curious how they figured this