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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Thanks for this information.  For whatever reason, there are still "big picture" elements to the program I still don't understand.  For example, what prompted you all to have your children tested for the program?  Did your child's teacher recommend you look into it because their needs were not being met in the classroom? We don't know anyone "IRL" who does this program, and we know lots of kids in the HGC's in Montgomery County. So I am curious what drew you to look into the program. Thanks again.[/quote]
Hi OP, this is 20:11 again.
I posted responses to similar questions on a different thread a couple of weeks ago.
My 13yo DS is a verified 173. It has ranged from 173-184 based over the years. He has been with Hopkins for years. His teacher's didn't recommend him. He had a great Preschool and K-8
Why did I get him tested? I'll cut and paste from a similar question I answered a couple of weeks ago, I hope the following helps:

[i]I don't want to 'out' him with being specific on the school, but here's what we did:
DH and I were very committed to allowing DS to have a peer group with kids his own age and to have the chance to play team sports and do 'normal' kid stuff. We kept him in a private K-8 that was very willing to work with us. DS did CTY and EPGY work at school for subjects where he was rapidly advanced. There are areas where IQ matters a bit less, for example, handwriting in lower grades, where he was kept with his peers. In broad strokes, he stayed with his peer group for religion, handwriting, PE, Art, Music and to some degree English. He did either accelerated or CTY/EPGY work for math, science, history, reading. It was month to month and we had a good K-8 that was willing to work with us closely. This allowed him to make friends, play on the baseball team, play in the band, and learn how to work and play with others. The school never made him feel like the odd man out. He simply went to the resource room to do his work at the appropriate time. Other kids went to resource too for various reasons so he never felt singled out. He did skip K but we resisted the pressure to skip him further. With appropriate supplementation, this is a kid that will learn and master the academics, the bigger challenge was helping him become a mature, confident, happy and social person. For high school he really wanted Groton, he had exposure to them via CTY and they can provide what he needs so we let him go and give it a try. We are very blessed, he is not Asperger's and is actually Mr. Social Butterfly.

A common question is "how did you know". He spoke his first word at 3 months, spoke 2 words together at 4 months, spoke in full sentences by 8 months, was fully articulate at his 12 month check up with a vocabulary of hundreds of words and could parrot back with perfect recall anything he heard on TV or the radio (yeah, that will drive you nuts quickly as he had an affinity for memorizing infomercials). He read simple books shortly after that, read chapter books at 2, could add/subtract at 2, memorized multiplication tables at 3.

It was the 12 month check up where the pediatrician sat me down and said... this is not normal. Not bad, but not normal. She referred us to ed/psych testing which we did via Hopkins so we got tied into CTY very early on. Our path may not be the best for everyone, but it worked for us because DS was not SN outside of the high IQ. I don't know if the hybrid path would work for everyone. He's in a position to take college level work so his learning needs are being met, but he's also with kids much like him so his social and emotional needs are being met as well.[/i]
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