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What a bunch of jealous suspicious types on here.

My children are similar to yours and are lucky to be in a gifted program in this area.
Be aware that testing several grades ahead does not necessarily mean that your child could do the whole curriculum for that upper grade. My son was reading at a 12th grade level since mid-elementary, but that did not mean he could have been parachuted in a 12th grade literature class at 9 years old!

OP, do you know whether your child's school could accommodate this by either letting him or her work on his own during class, or sending him (for math) to a different grade?

Alternatively, you can explore private school options which might be more accommodating, through smaller class sizes, or think about homeschooling your child.

The first thing you can do, however, is further investigate your child's abilities by doing a full neuropsychological evaluation.

Good luck - it's tough but exciting to have such a child![/quote]

What would a Neuro psych eval tell us?[/quote]

It is a full battery of tests, including the WISC-V (for IQ) meant to explore a child's learning style, memory, ability to calculate, see spatially, decode, comprehend, etc. 
Thus every skill is broken down and allows the psychologist to identify and analyze strengths and weaknesses. This is very important for children who are out of the norm, whether above or below it, because their gifts can mask some disabilities, or their disabilities can mask some gifts. Whereas a typical child will score similarly for various skills, a child who is out of the norm may have extreme variations in their skill set, which can explain various struggles at home or at school (emotional, behavioral, academic). It's a good starting point, which you can then use to advocate for your child in their school setting. It's much harder for a school to argue with such scores and a psychologist's report, than it is to sweep school test results under the rug, as was done to both my children.

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