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[quote=Anonymous]Were the 4 rarely on social skills?  What does the report card look like?  Submit all of the scores that the school didn’t submit!  Talk about the things your child does at home.  Origami, puzzles, figuring out math problems on their own, learning, above grade level books.  Request a conference with the teachers who gave the evaluation.  Request the full iReady Winter score reports for math and reading and submit them if the scores are supportive of AAP.  Do you think that your child may have ADHD or fine motor skill deficiencies, or a similar disorder that would be a reason for lower social scores or bad handwriting?  Have your child rewrite any writing samples as neat as possible.  You also need to include a 1-2 line write up of your child’s thinking for any work samples.  For math work samples use gifted math problems from higher grade levels (2 grades above would be ideal).  Request an appointment with your pediatrician and have the teachers fill out the forms for ADHD evaluation from your doctor (not to include in your packet, but you can write about this).  Looks like the lower scores are on verbal/reading.  Use your parent write up to include info about how your child is advanced in that area.  Make sure you have good work samples to support that.  You can use multiple work samples and shrink them onto less pages.

Don’t write anything bad about the school or teachers!  You can write about how shy your child is in new situations and that at your most recent parent teacher conference the teacher said “_____” about your child.  Take notes!  Ask the teacher for why your child scores so high on the assessments, yet isn’t marked as above grade level at all.  Request the full scores reports for prior years ready as well.  How many kids are in the class?  Teachers tend to give children who raise their hands a lot and answer a lot of questions and behave well better scores (even if they have lower standardized test scores.”

You can submit the WISC report from George Mason.  For a private psychologist you need a copy of their license to submit with the score.  Only submit the score if it supports math and language arts AAP.  [/quote]

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