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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Huh.  Hadn't considered my kid to be "gifted" - I guess with so many problems with remembering math facts and such, I didn't consider it.  However, DS scored 99.6% for verbal - "very superior" range. The processing speed is so slow (the category as a whole was "low average" with one of the subtests being rock-bottom) that the whole IQ score was pulled down into the normal/high average range.  Anyway, I hadn't thought of him as "gifted" and "twice exceptional."

What do you think?  With the super low processing score and the 99.6% for the verbal, is this 2E?

Doesn't make too much difference as we have an IEP in place and so forth, and the school DS attends is fine, but no one ever pointed this out to us exactly this way... [/quote]

Yes, he's definitely 2E.  The verbal score is astounding.  Please be sure to read up on 2E issues.  The Hoagies site linked above has a whole section dedicated to the topic.  2E kids can get quite depressed if they aren't challenged enough in their areas of strength.  We have a tendency to want to focus on their weaknesses to help them but a child that advanced in abstract reasoning will likely need just as much accomodation if not more for their strengths.  If you consider that he is in the top .4 percentile that this is as far from the norm as a child in the bottom .4 percentile.  It's a huge difference and much more significant than the low average processing scores as it relates to needed accomodation.  I'm certainly not saying that the IEP isn't very much needed to address his difficulties so please don't misunderstand.

It's common practice to use the GAI to determine level of giftedness for children with processing speed descrepancies.  I would imagine his GAI would be very high....maybe high enough to qualify as a Davidson Young Scholar or CTY.  He'll always need accomodation to help him but he's got a heck of a lot of potential if given the opportunity to rise to the challenge.

Good luck.[/quote]

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