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[quote=Anonymous]Try getting on the GT/LD networks listserv and ask if anyone on there will be willing to share about their experience.  IME, many there will do so.

GT/LD doesn't look at IQ scores as a cut off, but generally speaking anything around 120 or higher would qualify as GT.

You can also use other markers -- like how they are scoring on MAP reading or what level they are reading at home vs. what they are reading at school.  Also, samples of writing done at home can be helpful -- does your DC write stories on his own?

I know a couple of families which seem happy at GT/LD MS, but honestly, their experience in ES was so bad, that anything would be better by comparison.

It's a problem across the board that parents of GT kids don't think they are challenged enough.  You will be more successful with your quest for the GT/LD program if you focus on ways that the failure to get appropriate challenge is causing a problem in the homeschool.  Access to GT/LD is provided by showing that the homeschool is not able to support the student.  It is not provided because a student hits a certain cut off for GT or LD.

For us, this was feeling stupid because DC was constantly needing special ed and never getting anything at his level.  Also, some social anxiety was emerging as other kids and the teacher made fun of our DC for special needs.  Behavioral problems -- like inattention or acting out or fooling around can also be a result of lack of challenge.   You could also need a GT/LD program because your child needs specialized instruction that can't be provided at the home school.  For example, our child needed special reading and writing instruction, and it became evident that our ES had no one who was trained to provide that.  Well, actually, MCPS as a whole isn't very good at providing that, but the GT/LD ES seemed like it could at least try to do it.  [/quote]

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